diff --git a/src/derivatives/common-data-types.md b/src/derivatives/common-data-types.md
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ A guide for using macros can be found at
 Preprocessed `bold` NIfTI file in the original coordinate space of the original run.
 The location of the file in the original datasets is encoded in the `Sources` metadata,
 and [`_desc-<label>`](../appendices/entities.md#desc)
-is used to prevent clashing with the original filename.
+is used (the last entity before the suffix) to prevent clashing with the original filename.
 
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