before

• CURIE: gmeow:before
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/before
• Category: property
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/events
• Box roles: RBox role (What is this?)

Allen BEFORE: this event ends strictly before the related event begins (a gap between them). Transitive. Inverse of gmeow:after. (= time:intervalBefore over the events' extents; TimeML TLINK relType BEFORE; TEO before.)

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Event -> gmeow:Event

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:before from gmeow:Event to gmeow:Event when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Event

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: teo, time

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to qualitatively order two events when one ends strictly before the other begins, with a gap between them — the Allen BEFORE link, useful when exact dates are unknown but the ordering is.

Avoid when

• Avoid it when the events abut with no gap (use gmeow:meets), overlap (gmeow:overlaps), or when a crisp date on each event already implies the order; this relates occurrences, not their bare extents.

How to use

• Assert gmeow:before between two gmeow:Event occurrences; transitivity derives the sound closure. Read gmeow:after as its inverse; the full Allen composition table is left to the solver (P12), not OWL.

Examples

• ex:dinner gmeow:before ex:concert.