Pith Number

pith:KINNZI5L

pith:2026:KINNZI5LHDGCXX3IYFNMBT5SWB

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Narration-of-Thought: Inference-Time Scaffolding for Defeasible Ethical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Alvaro Velasquez, Patrick Cooper

arxiv:2606.26366 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CY

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First computed	2026-06-26T00:15:38.270868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

521adca3ab38cc2bdf68c15ac0cfb2b061f00d39707f01d872034bc76dfa8be8

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26366 · arxiv_version: 2606.26366v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26366 · pith_short_12: KINNZI5LHDGC · pith_short_16: KINNZI5LHDGCXX3I · pith_short_8: KINNZI5L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KINNZI5LHDGCXX3IYFNMBT5SWB \
  | 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: 521adca3ab38cc2bdf68c15ac0cfb2b061f00d39707f01d872034bc76dfa8be8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e97f9e1844fc90076cd7b7923d68fb2d2f2d89de29b638fd8870239e420b74c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T20:23:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2eb9fb39240113322211cf768bd0116c0097c14137132d6edfd905ce60ed18ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26366",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}