Pith Number

pith:XP7GXMCT

pith:2026:XP7GXMCTED36JWPBD6HZ2P42E5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bounded Path Context: A Controlled Study of Visible Path History in LLM-Based Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Xihang Shan, Ye Luo

arxiv:2605.26645 v1 · 2026-05-26 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XP7GXMCTED36JWPBD6HZ2P42E5}

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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	2026-05-27T01:06:03.793007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbfe6bb05320f7e4d9e11f8f9d3f9a277e99cd8fc6c6d3b7edd6f379d9ed4560

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.26645 · arxiv_version: 2605.26645v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26645 · pith_short_12: XP7GXMCTED36 · pith_short_16: XP7GXMCTED36JWPB · pith_short_8: XP7GXMCT

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/XP7GXMCTED36JWPBD6HZ2P42E5 \
  | 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: bbfe6bb05320f7e4d9e11f8f9d3f9a277e99cd8fc6c6d3b7edd6f379d9ed4560

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9861fadd34ac4de3c5b0091c7f717a3ac92c75fba890868c9b71e20f19547da9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-26T07:29:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8e418228dd87a9b2a83017656812777f149c23995164b2d5c73d88faa000f2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.26645",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}