# Overlapping relations

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/overlapping-relations/4723>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, front-end, relations\
**Created:** [September 26, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/overlapping-relations/4723 "2021-09-26T20:08:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@Dien](https://support.prodi.gy/u/Dien)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/overlapping-relations/4723/1 "2021-09-26T20:08:15Z")

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Hi!

Are there any recent updates in the package allow for overlapping relations, please?

e.g. "The business sold to the customer"  
Ents: business [AGENT] sold [ACT] customer [AGENT]  
Relation: business ---------[AGENT\_to\_AGENT]---------------customer  
Relation: business --[SENDER\_&_ACT]-- sold  
Relation: sold --[ACT_&\_RECEIVER]--customer

Thank you!  
Warm wishes

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**Author:** ![Dien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@Dien](https://support.prodi.gy/u/Dien)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/overlapping-relations/4723/2 "2021-09-26T20:14:16Z")

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I assume from reading previous posts that overlapping Entities are not currently supported? Is it different to overlapping Relations?

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/overlapping-relations/4723/3 "2021-09-28T15:56:44Z")

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Hi! The `relations` UI definitely lets you add overlapping relations and attach one token to multiple different other tokens or even to itself. You can try it out here: [https://prodi.gy/demo?view\_id=rel\_bio](https://prodi.gy/demo?view_id=rel_bio)

Prodigy v1.11 also supports annotating overlapping spans: [https://prodi.gy/docs/span-categorization](https://prodi.gy/docs/span-categorization)

However, there's currently no support for overlapping spans _and_ relations, as this gets really complex and there's often a better and more efficient way to frame the task if you end up with this level of complexity. You can read more about this here: [Using rel.manual with nested entities. - #2 by ines](https://support.prodi.gy/t/using-rel-manual-with-nested-entities/4667/2)