Pith Number

pith:OPQSGUEU

pith:2017:OPQSGUEUHJRHMWBKGDZXS2F2WK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scalable Entity Resolution Using Probabilistic Signatures on Parallel Databases

Kee Siong Ng, Michael Walker, Pauline Chou, Peter Christen, Tania Churchill, Yuhang Zhang

arxiv:1712.09691 v3 · 2017-12-27 · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OPQSGUEUHJRHMWBKGDZXS2F2WK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T00:20:44.188767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

73e12350943a6276582a30f37968bab2a03722a26b0e6d1dd6eda2f70ddd95d4

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09691 · arxiv_version: 1712.09691v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09691 · pith_short_12: OPQSGUEUHJRH · pith_short_16: OPQSGUEUHJRHMWBK · pith_short_8: OPQSGUEU

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/OPQSGUEUHJRHMWBKGDZXS2F2WK \
  | 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: 73e12350943a6276582a30f37968bab2a03722a26b0e6d1dd6eda2f70ddd95d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf6707a10c679c4b7ccd5fa4b807742141530f6db6359fffbbf556f917889423",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-27T21:36:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97e211ec10b70d3761f0f4dd2b504f7a57abb2ff1e78fd967f23c4bce04ba159"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09691",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}