Pith Number

pith:NWYULQQA

pith:2026:NWYULQQAZU7LSBEC5YCDVBXYDK

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Reducing Hallucinations in Complex Question Answering using Simple Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (long version)

Christopher J. Wedge, Danny Dixon, Jacek Ca{\l}a, Joshua Stutter

arxiv:2606.05901 v1 · 2026-06-04 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{NWYULQQAZU7LSBEC5YCDVBXYDK}

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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	2026-06-05T01:15:26.832376Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6db145c200cd3eb90482ee043a86f81a9cf95e495f024eafbf3229374f1cd946

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05901 · arxiv_version: 2606.05901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05901 · pith_short_12: NWYULQQAZU7L · pith_short_16: NWYULQQAZU7LSBEC · pith_short_8: NWYULQQA

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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/NWYULQQAZU7LSBEC5YCDVBXYDK \
  | 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: 6db145c200cd3eb90482ee043a86f81a9cf95e495f024eafbf3229374f1cd946

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b91db9b892fdf699e0fdc43544621d01b2ca50027dee7c2e30e6ece7fcee6810",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-04T09:07:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7df7122f34c71f055764e7e985dd9a685fc3f728e8492de25f43f75325772339"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}