Pith Number

pith:AV4KMQF5

pith:2018:AV4KMQF55OLQJU4HRS2JO24F26

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Improving Machine-based Entity Resolution with Limited Human Effort: A Risk Perspective

Boyi Hou, Murtadha Ahmed, Qun Chen, Zhanhuai Li, Zhaoqiang Chen

arxiv:1805.12502 v2 · 2018-05-31 · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AV4KMQF55OLQJU4HRS2JO24F26}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:14.746240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0578a640bdeb9704d3878cb4976b85d7b301e3a44e6aa3f9c61bbd3587c2bb12

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.12502 · arxiv_version: 1805.12502v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.12502 · pith_short_12: AV4KMQF55OLQ · pith_short_16: AV4KMQF55OLQJU4H · pith_short_8: AV4KMQF5

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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/AV4KMQF55OLQJU4HRS2JO24F26 \
  | 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: 0578a640bdeb9704d3878cb4976b85d7b301e3a44e6aa3f9c61bbd3587c2bb12

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c4e36d0c52267206916ddfef43a82810e89073cb599f87fb120e4ebd0268b0c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-31T14:54:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e63789008552110234fc7beae556780a9aa424bee6258fa453eb52ec12238c2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.12502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}