Relation Before Entity: Deferred Commitment in Language Model Factual Recall

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-07-13

Updated: 2026-07-13

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted at the Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026). Code available at https://github.com/divyanshddn146/deferred-entity-commitment

Code: https://github.com/divyanshddn146/deferred-entity-commitment

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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