Turkish collier Boz-Kourt
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The Turkish collier Boz-Kourt was a coal-carrying steamship best known for its involvement in the 1926 Lotus case before the Permanent Court of International Justice, which shaped international maritime law on criminal jurisdiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Turkish collier Boz-Kourt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2158433 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Turkish collier Boz-Kourt Context triple: [Lotus case, originatingVessel, Turkish collier Boz-Kourt]
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A.
Dutch Shepherd
The Dutch Shepherd is a highly intelligent, versatile herding and working dog breed from the Netherlands, valued today for its strong drive, trainability, and frequent use in police and protection work.
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B.
Bouvier
Bouvier is the maiden surname of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, associated with a prominent American socialite and political family.
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C.
Landseer
Landseer is the middle name of renowned British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, best known for his influential country houses and war memorial designs.
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D.
Belgian Malinois
The Belgian Malinois is a highly intelligent, agile, and trainable herding dog breed widely used in police and military work around the world.
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E.
Shetland sheepdog
The Shetland sheepdog is a small, intelligent herding dog breed resembling a miniature Rough Collie, known for its agility, trainability, and long double coat.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Turkish collier Boz-Kourt Target entity description: The Turkish collier Boz-Kourt was a coal-carrying steamship best known for its involvement in the 1926 Lotus case before the Permanent Court of International Justice, which shaped international maritime law on criminal jurisdiction.
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A.
Dutch Shepherd
The Dutch Shepherd is a highly intelligent, versatile herding and working dog breed from the Netherlands, valued today for its strong drive, trainability, and frequent use in police and protection work.
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B.
Bouvier
Bouvier is the maiden surname of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, associated with a prominent American socialite and political family.
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C.
Landseer
Landseer is the middle name of renowned British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, best known for his influential country houses and war memorial designs.
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D.
Belgian Malinois
The Belgian Malinois is a highly intelligent, agile, and trainable herding dog breed widely used in police and military work around the world.
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E.
Shetland sheepdog
The Shetland sheepdog is a small, intelligent herding dog breed resembling a miniature Rough Collie, known for its agility, trainability, and long double coat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
collier
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merchant ship ⓘ steamship ⓘ |
| associatedWithDoctrine | permissive principle of international law in Lotus case ⓘ |
| cargoType | coal ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | collision with French steamship Lotus ⓘ |
| collisionWith | French steamship Lotus ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | Turkey ⓘ |
| crewNationality | Turkish ⓘ |
| dateOfCollision | 1926-08-02 ⓘ |
| fate | sank after collision in 1926 ⓘ |
| flag |
Ottoman Empire
ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ |
| impactOnInternationalLaw | influenced rules on concurrent jurisdiction over maritime collisions ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Lotus case
ⓘ
S.S. Lotus v. Turkey ⓘ
surface form:
S.S. Lotus (France v. Turkey)
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| jurisdictionIssue | criminal jurisdiction over collision on the high seas ⓘ |
| legalOutcomeRelatedTo | upholding Turkey’s right to exercise criminal jurisdiction ⓘ |
| legalSignificance | central to international law case on criminal jurisdiction on the high seas ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | judgment of the Permanent Court of International Justice in S.S. Lotus (1927) ⓘ |
| notableFor | involvement in the Lotus case ⓘ |
| numberOfDeathsInCollision | 8 ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Mediterranean Sea
ⓘ
high seas ⓘ |
| otherStateInCase | France ⓘ |
| ownerCountry | Turkey ⓘ |
| placeOfCollision |
Mediterranean Sea
ⓘ
high seas ⓘ |
| primaryCargo | coal ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam ⓘ |
| relatedCourtCase | Permanent Court of International Justice decision in the Lotus case ⓘ |
| typeOfService | commercial cargo transport ⓘ |
| victimStateInCase | Turkey ⓘ |
| yearOfIncident | 1926 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Turkish collier Boz-Kourt Description of subject: The Turkish collier Boz-Kourt was a coal-carrying steamship best known for its involvement in the 1926 Lotus case before the Permanent Court of International Justice, which shaped international maritime law on criminal jurisdiction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.