The class of Petrov type I curvature tensors is further divided into those for which the span of the set of distinct principal null directions has dimension 4 (maximally spanning type I) or dimension 3 (nonmaximally spanning type I). Explicit examples are provided for both vacuum and nonvacuum spacetimes.

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