diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 391d360e..7fd38515 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ### Added
 
+- [SIL.LCModel] Add SpecificItemAndFieldName() to ISenseOrEntry
 - [SIL.LCModel] Added a parameter to GetBestGuess() and TryGetBestGuess() to do lowercase matching regardless of the occurrence index
 - [SIL.LCModel] Add GetCaptionOrHeadword() to CmPicture
 - [SIL.LCModel] `LCModelStrings.NotSure` to allow clients to know if a grammatical category is the placeholder
diff --git a/src/SIL.LCModel/DomainImpl/OverridesLing_Lex.cs b/src/SIL.LCModel/DomainImpl/OverridesLing_Lex.cs
index 1a0802ec..798fc3b3 100644
--- a/src/SIL.LCModel/DomainImpl/OverridesLing_Lex.cs
+++ b/src/SIL.LCModel/DomainImpl/OverridesLing_Lex.cs
@@ -10065,5 +10065,31 @@ public ILcmReferenceSequence<ICmPossibility> DialectLabelsRS
 				return sense.DialectLabelsSenseOrEntry;
 			}
 		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// There are some special cases where the value of a field cannot be obtained
+		/// by getting the value of fieldName on the SenseOrEntry.Item. This method accounts for
+		/// those special cases and returns the Item and fieldName that will need to be used to
+		/// get the value. If it is not a special case then the default is to return SenseOrEntry.Item
+		/// for specificItem and return fieldName for specificFieldName.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="fieldName">The general fieldName associated with this SenseOrEntry object.</param>
+		/// <param name="specificItem">The specific LexSense or LexEntry item that will contain a
+		/// value for specificFieldName.</param>
+		/// <param name="specificFieldName">The specific field name that will need to be used to get
+		/// the value from the specificItem.</param>
+		public void SpecificItemAndFieldName(string fieldName, out ICmObject specificObject, out string specificFieldName)
+		{
+			specificObject = Item;
+			specificFieldName = fieldName;
+			if (fieldName == "HeadWordRef" && Item is ILexSense)
+			{
+				specificFieldName = "MLOwnerOutlineName";
+			}
+			else if (fieldName == "EntryRefsOS" && Item is ILexSense sense)
+			{
+				specificObject = sense.Entry;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/src/SIL.LCModel/InterfaceAdditions.cs b/src/SIL.LCModel/InterfaceAdditions.cs
index 73f5835e..d23a3cc9 100644
--- a/src/SIL.LCModel/InterfaceAdditions.cs
+++ b/src/SIL.LCModel/InterfaceAdditions.cs
@@ -5992,5 +5992,19 @@ public interface ISenseOrEntry
 		/// Returns the dialect labels for the entry or sense
 		/// </summary>
 		ILcmReferenceSequence<ICmPossibility> DialectLabelsRS { get; }
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// There are some special cases where the value of a field cannot be obtained
+		/// by getting the value of fieldName on the SenseOrEntry.Item. This method accounts for
+		/// those special cases and returns the Item and fieldName that will need to be used to
+		/// get the value. If it is not a special case then the default is to return SenseOrEntry.Item
+		/// for specificItem and return fieldName for specificFieldName.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="fieldName">The general fieldName associated with this SenseOrEntry object.</param>
+		/// <param name="specificItem">The specific LexSense or LexEntry item that will contain a
+		/// value for specificFieldName.</param>
+		/// <param name="specificFieldName">The specific field name that will need to be used to get
+		/// the value from the specificItem.</param>
+		void SpecificItemAndFieldName(string fieldName, out ICmObject specificItem, out string specificFieldName);
 	}
 }