Pith Number

pith:53GCAVSV

pith:2026:53GCAVSVT7JPJJSHHE6OHPDEPX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Retrieval Helps and Distracts: Evaluating Evidence-Generating LLMs for Biomedical Claim Verification

Prabhjot Singh, Pritam Deka

arxiv:2608.01409 v1 · 2026-08-02 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{53GCAVSVT7JPJJSHHE6OHPDEPX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-08-04T02:05:10.321991Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eecc2056559fd2f4a647393ce3bc647dcf2bb9bb8dd7db0e90fec0f8a0062f64

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.01409 · arxiv_version: 2608.01409v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.01409 · pith_short_12: 53GCAVSVT7JP · pith_short_16: 53GCAVSVT7JPJJSH · pith_short_8: 53GCAVSV

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/53GCAVSVT7JPJJSHHE6OHPDEPX \
  | 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: eecc2056559fd2f4a647393ce3bc647dcf2bb9bb8dd7db0e90fec0f8a0062f64

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c7f7446a75fce88a63b6adfa920acd9ab192f4dc29c4696eff0c31a9160d8de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-02T17:43:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7392c8d2d0d14878ef89f39578f58c3f3763e76e15292c1ca1514bf4568b3a65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.01409",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}