Pith Number

pith:NNNL2M5G

pith:2025:NNNL2M5GIERW7V7KM2ACYTJWEP

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Structure and Destructure: Dual Forces in the Making of Knowledge Engines

Yihong Chen

arxiv:2509.00949 v1 · 2025-08-31 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NNNL2M5GIERW7V7KM2ACYTJWEP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T12:02:25.224342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b5abd33a641236fd7ea66802c4d3623f22ecd00f681f0b8f1ac9b8f24d19233

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.00949 · arxiv_version: 2509.00949v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.00949 · pith_short_12: NNNL2M5GIERW · pith_short_16: NNNL2M5GIERW7V7K · pith_short_8: NNNL2M5G

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/NNNL2M5GIERW7V7KM2ACYTJWEP \
  | 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: 6b5abd33a641236fd7ea66802c4d3623f22ecd00f681f0b8f1ac9b8f24d19233

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86887b0385602feabeeccebac974c574a9f76f1e7f3503f07b8dcac46d749940",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-31T17:57:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51117652a94d448e244aabb7414aa2d83d6eab39bd65e0b2a9554e3afc9d4867"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.00949",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}