"Indefinite hiatus" vs. end of life-span

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[quote=“brian.beck, post:1, topic:175489”]
Does an entity “coming back” simply have their previous end date removed (that would leave the hiatus undocumented)?[/quote]Yes

@brian.beck

Might it be useful for the schema to allow multiple life-spans?

And yes!
There was brief discussion on ways to implement this here, courtesy of @outsidecontext:

Make "start/begin area" a relationship to allow multiple entries?

Main reason for it to be a relationship is the usual reason for things to be relationships: some (lots of) artists have no founders, but more importantly some have more than one, which a static field doesn’t support well (unlike “born in”, which I’d expect is always one place! I hope…)