earliest start

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

The earliest instant at which an event could have started — the lower bound of a fuzzy / approximate date (xsd:dateTime). Pairs with gmeow:latestEnd and a gmeow:temporalPrecision value to model uncertainty without abandoning DL-clean base triples.

Structure

Property shape: datatype property; gmeow:Event -> xsd:dateTime

Practical Pattern

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

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Event

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: crm, ical

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 as the lower bound of a fuzzy or approximate date — 'sometime in the 1850s', 'circa 1200' — paired with gmeow:latestEnd and a gmeow:temporalPrecision value.

Avoid when

• Avoid it for a crisply known instant (use gmeow:eventTime) or span (use gmeow:eventInterval), and avoid asserting only one bound — the lower and upper bounds bracket the fuzzy date together.

How to use

• Assert gmeow:earliestStart and gmeow:latestEnd as xsd:dateTime bounds plus a gmeow:temporalPrecision value; the solver layer (P12) does any fuzzy-interval arithmetic.

Examples

• ex:battle gmeow:earliestStart "1850-01-01T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime; gmeow:latestEnd "1859-12-31T23:59:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime; gmeow:temporalPrecision gmeow:precisionDecade.