No, not really. So, let me give you a real-life example.
Here is the end of the initial topic, which was forked into a new one:
Clearly enough, it’s obvious that things were moved around. But, if you go directly to the forked topic, you will see this:
Other than the red highlight, there is nothing that links to the original article. More than that, even the red highlight doesn’t explicitly says something about the relation with the initial topic.
(green highlight is the moderator note)
I’m not sure how reply as a new topic is highlighted, but i assume is the same?