diff --git a/docs/reference/query-dsl/bool-query.asciidoc b/docs/reference/query-dsl/bool-query.asciidoc
index f8e08aaada9..dc986bf14d9 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query-dsl/bool-query.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/query-dsl/bool-query.asciidoc
@@ -141,3 +141,10 @@ GET _search
 }
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 // AUTOSENSE
+
+==== Using named queries to see which clauses matched
+
+If you need to know which of the clauses in the bool query matched the documents
+returned from the query, you can use
+<<search-request-named-queries-and-filters,named queries>> to assign a name to
+each clause.