Entity

Black Sea

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 12 coverage verticals, including Europe Politics, Energy and Turkey.

As of 5 Nov 2026Last evidence 4 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Bulgaria's Iotova wins presidential runoff vote amid Black Sea security fears

    Reported event · first reported 1 Nov 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Dead dolphins, naval mines: Russia-Ukraine war destroys the Black Sea

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • US, Canada see growing interest in limited ceasefire in Black Sea

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Indonesia Urges Russia to Stop Recruiting Its Citizens Into Ukraine War

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 4 events and claims involving Black Sea

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 28 mentions on 5 Nov 2026, against 34 on 15 Oct 2026 (-18%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 28 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 4 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

888 documents · 137 publishers · 11% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 4 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.111: about 89% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Black Sea

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

RussiaUkraineOilEuropean UnionNATOBulgariaIranZelenskyyFrance
  • Russia · 657 shared documents
  • Ukraine · 603 shared documents
  • Turkish · 348 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Oil · 326 shared documents
  • European Union · 249 shared documents
  • NATO · 228 shared documents
  • Bulgaria · 209 shared documents
  • Iran · 202 shared documents
  • Zelenskyy · 188 shared documents
  • France · 186 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 28 mentions on 5 Nov 2026 with 34 on 15 Oct 2026 (-18%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +75% from 21 Sept 2026 to 5 Nov 2026, between 8 and 44 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Black Sea, day by day.

Market price, cited

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For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/25ac4f00fa0c91f40a352e28 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name black sea.

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Events involving Black Sea

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Bulgaria's Iotova wins presidential runoff vote amid Black Sea security fears

    Reported event · first reported 1 Nov 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Bulgaria's Iotova wins presidential runoff vote amid Black Sea security fears · reported by two · first reported 1 Nov 2026 · 4 separate publishers
    • Bulgarians vote in presidential runoff amid security tensions in the Black Sea · single source · first reported 1 Nov 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • Dead dolphins, naval mines: Russia-Ukraine war destroys the Black Sea

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • US, Canada see growing interest in limited ceasefire in Black Sea

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Indonesia Urges Russia to Stop Recruiting Its Citizens Into Ukraine War

    Reported claim · first reported 31 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Black Sea

Entity.

Evidence
888 documents · 137 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 19 Aug 2026, last seen 4 Nov 2026
Measured
11% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
5 Nov 2026
16 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (5)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (1)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Black Sea, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 28 Oct 2026.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 5 Nov 2026.