Pith Number

pith:Q7D2BN5F

pith:2026:Q7D2BN5F6HAZZURUZAFLVJR5MI

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LLMs Infer Cultural Context but Fail to Apply It When Responding

Jian Zhu, Vered Shwartz, Yisong Miao

arxiv:2606.17688 v1 · 2026-06-16 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q7D2BN5F6HAZZURUZAFLVJR5MI}

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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	2026-06-19T16:10:19.418658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87c7a0b7a5f1c19cd234c80abaa63d623e345c4ed045a6e890c69dc8e426556c

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.17688 · arxiv_version: 2606.17688v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.17688 · pith_short_12: Q7D2BN5F6HAZ · pith_short_16: Q7D2BN5F6HAZZURU · pith_short_8: Q7D2BN5F

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/Q7D2BN5F6HAZZURUZAFLVJR5MI \
  | 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: 87c7a0b7a5f1c19cd234c80abaa63d623e345c4ed045a6e890c69dc8e426556c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "660bed4636061e81f89a4322233de1d16312525cf87e9cdb36a2eea7b9a82f0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T08:53:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a4e45ea0f6069f444b1dc2546487a987a25777c44f2ec297357357d2bcba0ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.17688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}