Pith Number

pith:KVZ5UVJE

pith:2015:KVZ5UVJEF25BOIKUI4K76JRWJM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Annotating Character Relationships in Literary Texts

David Bamman, Noah A. Smith, Patrick Xia, Philip Massey

arxiv:1512.00728 v1 · 2015-12-02 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVZ5UVJEF25BOIKUI4K76JRWJM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T01:25:25.232877Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5573da55242eba1721544715ff26364b0f5a045a816fd22a1dcc01c57bb37cdc

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.00728 · arxiv_version: 1512.00728v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.00728 · pith_short_12: KVZ5UVJEF25B · pith_short_16: KVZ5UVJEF25BOIKU · pith_short_8: KVZ5UVJE

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/KVZ5UVJEF25BOIKUI4K76JRWJM \
  | 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: 5573da55242eba1721544715ff26364b0f5a045a816fd22a1dcc01c57bb37cdc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70e0982566b9af4b4682e37578584b4d2df9a8246ab8c7fc6ec4e89c3bdcb79e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-02T15:09:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4617c3bf34194b751fd7abfae43453a4c77ab357f7dcc5a14aff6b5d19bbf4be"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.00728",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}