Pith Number

pith:YN3HS6RT

pith:2017:YN3HS6RTOW4CBY5IXDQAOGVGCP

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Insights into Entity Name Evolution on Wikipedia

Helge Holzmann, Thomas Risse

arxiv:1702.01172 v1 · 2017-02-03 · cs.CL · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YN3HS6RTOW4CBY5IXDQAOGVGCP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:24.320910Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c376797a3375b820e3a8b8e0071aa613e7849c6b8d4fe81929fbcd9724eb7fbd

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01172 · arxiv_version: 1702.01172v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01172 · pith_short_12: YN3HS6RTOW4C · pith_short_16: YN3HS6RTOW4CBY5I · pith_short_8: YN3HS6RT

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/YN3HS6RTOW4CBY5IXDQAOGVGCP \
  | 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: c376797a3375b820e3a8b8e0071aa613e7849c6b8d4fe81929fbcd9724eb7fbd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a0bc62225f5cfabedd359d73b0e2af8607d6643a86be8cbf4c0e1b8ce269361",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-03T21:36:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5ca2f1190fa452dc63d7e7ee6510fbccfdad3338a02c66acb0f252757a5a2f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.01172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}