Pith Number

pith:EKRQAF6D

pith:2024:EKRQAF6DBXDF74U54U6LUKFH4K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do LLMs Act as Repositories of Causal Knowledge?

Eleanor J. Murray, Nick Huntington-Klein

arxiv:2412.10635 v1 · 2024-12-14 · econ.EM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EKRQAF6DBXDF74U54U6LUKFH4K}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T09:49:18.816515Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

22a30017c30dc65ff29de53cba28a7e28d8bd7c0bfaa6d49042f52afa93d55a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.10635 · arxiv_version: 2412.10635v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.10635 · pith_short_12: EKRQAF6DBXDF · pith_short_16: EKRQAF6DBXDF74U5 · pith_short_8: EKRQAF6D

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/EKRQAF6DBXDF74U54U6LUKFH4K \
  | 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: 22a30017c30dc65ff29de53cba28a7e28d8bd7c0bfaa6d49042f52afa93d55a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6786449fef62568955b986b25ee5dcafa3e9b5cf5e9dd44c6cc3d18b9f00bcd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.EM",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-14T01:28:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b293f44bbb19d1389d0dabdcae24385b0902c4fd2c87f6d4e1b0e3ee8f75537"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.10635",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}