E.E.C. Jones herself argued that identity propositions like 'Tully is Cicero' are cognitively significant precisely because the name-referent relation involves a logical distinction between sense and reference.
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(as Frege's key distinction about how words have meaning)
Two different aspects of meaning: the 'reference' is what a word points to in the real world (like how 'the Morning Star' refers to Venus), while the 'sense' is the specific way or description we use to think about that thing (how we conceive of it).