Pith Number

pith:A25RKRCK

pith:2026:A25RKRCKPTPEZKWDTX2BNR4LUH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

TimeCapsule: Generative Hallucination as a Method for Historical Sensemaking

Hamed Yaghoobian, Hayk Grigorian

arxiv:2607.24750 v1 · 2026-05-22 · cs.CL · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A25RKRCKPTPEZKWDTX2BNR4LUH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-29T00:24:41.967363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06bb15444a7cde4caac39df416c78ba1f3b71ffaa04698483ff9c46bba93f1ec

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.24750 · arxiv_version: 2607.24750v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.24750 · pith_short_12: A25RKRCKPTPE · pith_short_16: A25RKRCKPTPEZKWD · pith_short_8: A25RKRCK

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/A25RKRCKPTPEZKWDTX2BNR4LUH \
  | 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: 06bb15444a7cde4caac39df416c78ba1f3b71ffaa04698483ff9c46bba93f1ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa53bde1ee3ec3eaa4ff45205116f41310ee1b0e99d5277e180dd99c8b4ab5b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-22T18:25:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d513658363a5a28dd0dcb69636b3f007ae4ac72c7b75d672a60dc9b2fa90ffe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.24750",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}