interval starts

Allen STARTS: this interval and the related interval begin together, and this one ends first. NOT transitive. Inverse of gmeow:intervalStartedBy. (= time:intervalStarts)

Structure

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

Use gmeow:intervalStarts from gmeow:TimeInterval to gmeow:TimeInterval when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Profile	External Targets
`owl-time`	`time`

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: time

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

Source	Kind	Profile	Predicate/Relation	Target	Evidence
`gmeow:intervalStarts`	equivalence	`-`	skos:closeMatch	time:intervalStarts	`gmeow-temporal.sssom.tsv`; `gmeow:eqTemporal046`; confidence 0.95

Source	Kind	Profile	Predicate/Relation	Target	Evidence
`gmeow:intervalStarts`	projection	`owl-time`	projects to / <=	time:intervalStarts	`gmeow:mapIntervalStarts`

Use when two intervals share a start instant but the subject ends first — an initial sub-span (probation, trial period) that begins with its enclosing span.

Avoid when the intervals also share their end (use gmeow:intervalFinishes) or are fully co-extensive (use gmeow:intervalCoincidesWith); STARTS is the shared-start-only case and is NOT transitive.

Assert from the shorter, co-starting interval to the longer one; the inverse gmeow:intervalStartedBy follows automatically (= time:intervalStarts).

Published Alignment Graph

Relation	Target
`closeMatch`	`time:intervalStarts`