Pith Number

pith:2IDE5ZYX

pith:2025:2IDE5ZYXKXRZDVGGHXYYLLA2BI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

LLMs Provide Unstable Answers to Legal Questions

Andrew Blair-Stanek, Benjamin Van Durme

arxiv:2502.05196 v1 · 2025-01-28 · cs.CL · cs.CY

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2IDE5ZYXKXRZDVGGHXYYLLA2BI}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:11:33.933821Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2064ee71755e391d4c63df185ac1a0a35a1e9f1e8a5bbb5af7cff70a39609b3

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.05196 · arxiv_version: 2502.05196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.05196 · pith_short_12: 2IDE5ZYXKXRZ · pith_short_16: 2IDE5ZYXKXRZDVGG · pith_short_8: 2IDE5ZYX

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2IDE5ZYXKXRZDVGGHXYYLLA2BI \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d2064ee71755e391d4c63df185ac1a0a35a1e9f1e8a5bbb5af7cff70a39609b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd6c7ff2a968095cb4f1f23658bedef4f5007102f41dd49b914857ff4b248027",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-28T23:39:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c09ce78a6c76228fe3a012280529e94c2fc1d8293f7d0fadebc1ed1df2d21a02"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.05196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}