Pith Number

pith:6L4IQ3ZB

pith:2026:6L4IQ3ZBADZAUCSAPZ2G3OCNMS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Templated or fully Synthetic? Prompt construction as a confound in measuring LLM political stance beyond writing assistance

Ilias Chalkidis

arxiv:2608.11008 v1 · 2026-08-11 · cs.CL · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6L4IQ3ZBADZAUCSAPZ2G3OCNMS}

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4 Citations 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-12T01:24:00.376667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2f8886f2100f20a0a407e746db84d6497e04f344682591f706d77a0ab50d7c9

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11008 · arxiv_version: 2608.11008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11008 · pith_short_12: 6L4IQ3ZBADZA · pith_short_16: 6L4IQ3ZBADZAUCSA · pith_short_8: 6L4IQ3ZB

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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/6L4IQ3ZBADZAUCSAPZ2G3OCNMS \
  | 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: f2f8886f2100f20a0a407e746db84d6497e04f344682591f706d77a0ab50d7c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "824fb89c248f28ffad04cc37832eaba41f619fb1aa83b9b786d99e0606bfd2a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T14:55:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0fac759590c788d977b79fbf8a91fdd3536b28325b11a150d466fa7fabe0eaf4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}