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This property specifies that the temporal extent of the domain instance A of E2 Temporal Entity starts definitely before the start of the temporal extent of the range instance B of E2 Temporal Entity.

In other words, if A = [A^start, A^end] and B = [B^start, B^end], we mean A^start < B^start is true.

This property is part of the set of temporal primitives P173 – P176, P182 – P185.

This property corresponds to a disjunction (logical OR) of the following Allen temporal relations (Allen, 1983): {before, meets, overlaps, contains, finished-by}. This property is transitive. This property is asymmetric.

Figure 14: Temporal entity A starts before the start of temporal entity B. Here A is longer than B

Figure 15: Temporal entity A starts before the start of temporal entity B. Here A is shorter than B

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