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The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard was patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak and his brother-in-law.

**Cycle ID:** `cycle_9060_cyc_9060_63207fa5` **Verified at:** 2026-04-12T21:08:22.452Z **Ensemble:** 9 models from 3 providers **Result:** 9 of 9 models responded **Cycle wall time:** 26.221 seconds **Canonical URL:** https://trust.polylogicai.com/claim/the-dvorak-simplified-keyboard-was-patented-in-1936-by-dr-august-dvorak-and-his- **Source paper:** [PolybrainBench (version 12)](https://trust.polylogicai.com/polybrainbench) **Source ledger row:** [`public-ledger.jsonl#cycle_9060_cyc_9060_63207fa5`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/polylogic/polybrainbench/blob/main/public-ledger.jsonl) **Cryptographic provenance:** SHA-256 `c15f1ed025cbfd54ff5d2748d18b3e5e64b46aa33659463086a07e9ab3c0f057`

Verification verdict

Of 9 models in the ensemble, 9 responded successfully and 0 failed.

Per-model responses

The full text of each model's response is available in the source ledger. The summary below records each model's success or failure and the first 280 characters of its response.

| Model | Status | Response chars | | --- | :---: | ---: | | gpt-4.1-mini | ✓ | 743 | | gpt-4.1-nano | ✓ | 3129 | | gpt-oss-120b | ✓ | 2305 | | grok-3-mini | ✓ | 7513 | | grok-4-fast | ✓ | 6116 | | kimi-k2-groq | ✓ | 895 | | llama-3.3-70b | ✓ | 2751 | | llama-4-scout | ✓ | 583 | | qwen3-32b | ✓ | 5624 |

Pairwise agreement

The pairwise Jaccard agreement between successful responses for this cycle:

_Per-cycle pairwise agreement matrix is computed offline; will be populated in canonical page v2._

Divergence score

This cycle's divergence score is **TBD** on a 0 to 1 scale, where 0 means all responses are token-identical and 1 means no two responses share any tokens. The dataset-wide median divergence is 0.5 for context.

How to cite this claim

```bibtex @misc{polybrainbench_claim_cycle_9060_cyc_9060_63207fa5, author = {Polylogic AI}, title = {The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard was patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak and his brother-in-law.}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {PolybrainBench cycle cycle_9060_cyc_9060_63207fa5}, url = {https://trust.polylogicai.com/claim/the-dvorak-simplified-keyboard-was-patented-in-1936-by-dr-august-dvorak-and-his-} } ```

Reproduce this cycle

```bash node ~/polybrain/bin/polybrain-cycle.mjs start --raw --fast "The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard was patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak and his brother-in-law." ```

Schema.org structured data

```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "ClaimReview", "datePublished": "2026-04-12T21:08:22.452Z", "url": "https://trust.polylogicai.com/claim/the-dvorak-simplified-keyboard-was-patented-in-1936-by-dr-august-dvorak-and-his-", "claimReviewed": "The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard was patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak and his brother-in-law.", "itemReviewed": { "@type": "Claim", "datePublished": "2026-04-12T21:08:22.452Z", "appearance": "https://trust.polylogicai.com/claim/the-dvorak-simplified-keyboard-was-patented-in-1936-by-dr-august-dvorak-and-his-", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "PolybrainBench" } }, "reviewRating": { "@type": "Rating", "ratingValue": "9", "bestRating": "9", "worstRating": "0", "alternateName": "Unanimous" }, "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Polylogic AI", "url": "https://polylogicai.com" } } ```

Provenance and integrity

This page was generated by the PolybrainBench daemon at version 0.1.0 from cycle cycle_9060_cyc_9060_63207fa5. The full provenance chain (per-response SHA-256 stamps, cross-cycle prev-hash linking, Thalamus grounding verification) is recorded in the source cycle directory at `~/polybrain/cycles/9060/provenance.json` and mirrored in the published dataset. The page is regenerated on every harvest pass; the URL is permanent and the content is immutable for any given paper version.


Source: PolybrainBench paper v8, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19546460

License: CC-BY-4.0

Verified by: 9-model ensemble across OpenAI, xAI, Groq, Moonshot

Canonical URL: https://polylogicai.com/trust/claim/the-dvorak-simplified-keyboard-was-patented-in-1936-by-dr-august-dvorak-and-his-