This property is used to relate two FRBR Endeavours/entities (http://vocab.org/frbr/core.html#Endeavour) together even if the entire Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item hierarchy does not exist. For example, it could be used to relate a frbr:Work to a frbr:Manifestation without the need of a frbr:Expression to link them through. The property is symmetric (if a <_:work> ov:associatedEntity <_:item> then <_:item> ov:associatedEntity <_:work>. It is not transitive (items may be associated with the same work but not be in the same WEMI chain, for example).