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beginning

A <beginning> is a <temporal_bounding> that marks the temporal start of a <possible_individual>.
EXAMPLE 1 The relation that indicates that the <point_in_time> known as 0000hrs 1st July 1999 UTC is the beginning of the <period_in_time> known as July 1999 UTC can be represented by an instance of <beginning>.
EXAMPLE 2 The relation that indicates that the <event> 'loading complete' marks the start of the <possible_individual> 'loading plant idle' can be represented by an instance of <beginning>.

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY beginning
SUBTYPE OF ( temporal_bounding);
END_ENTITY;

References (1):

Name Type Referred through Express-G
temporal_bounding Entity
Subtype
Diagram 9

Inheritance graph

ENTITY beginning;
ENTITY thing;
id  :  STRING;
record_copy_created  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
record_created  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
record_creator  :  OPTIONAL possible_individual;
record_logically_deleted  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
why_deleted  :  OPTIONAL class_of_information_representation;
ENTITY abstract_object;
ENTITY relationship;
ENTITY composition_of_individual;
whole  :  possible_individual;
ENTITY temporal_bounding;
part  :  event;
ENTITY beginning;
END_ENTITY;