Entity

Black Sea

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 1 coverage vertical, including World Wires.

As of 21 Oct 2026Last evidence 21 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • NATO May Redeploy Anti-Drone Defenses As Attacks Sink Black Sea Shipping

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Ukraine in talks with Turkey, Egypt and India on Black Sea grain corridor: report

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Romanian F-16 fighter jets shoot down two drones over Romanian territorial waters

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Bulgaria plans to join NATO C-UAS initiative following Black Sea drone attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Rutte meets Bulgarian and Romanian leaders as Black Sea drone attacks spread

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 6 events and claims involving Black Sea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 29 mentions on 21 Oct 2026, against 14 on 29 Sept 2026 (+107%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 11 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 20 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

625 documents · 104 publishers · 12% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 21 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.118: about 88% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 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 UnionZelenskyyNATOIranImmigration
  • Russia · 461 shared documents
  • Ukraine · 433 shared documents
  • Oil · 248 shared documents
  • Turkish · 244 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Europe · 205 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • European Union · 168 shared documents
  • Zelenskyy · 150 shared documents
  • NATO · 144 shared documents
  • Iran · 141 shared documents
  • Immigration · 140 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 29 mentions on 21 Oct 2026 with 14 on 29 Sept 2026 (+107%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +190% from 9 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026, between 6 and 36 a day

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

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Black Sea yet. Ask about Black Sea

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

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.

{
  "name": "black sea",
  "label": "Black Sea",
  "asOf": "2026-10-21",
  "mentions": 94,
  "outlets": 37,
  "domains": 1,
  "node": {
    "id": "sb:e/25ac4f00fa0c91f40a352e28",
    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
    "rest": "https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/25ac4f00fa0c91f40a352e28",
    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-21T16:01:06.638151+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "history": {
    "since": "2026-10-11T15:55:28.075824+00:00",
    "changes": 0
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "94 mentions across 1 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "1 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 88 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

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.

  • NATO May Redeploy Anti-Drone Defenses As Attacks Sink Black Sea Shipping

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Ukraine in talks with Turkey, Egypt and India on Black Sea grain corridor: report

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Romanian F-16 fighter jets shoot down two drones over Romanian territorial waters

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Bulgaria plans to join NATO C-UAS initiative following Black Sea drone attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Rutte meets Bulgarian and Romanian leaders as Black Sea drone attacks spread

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Romania says eight people missing after fire on tanker in its territorial Black Sea waters

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Black Sea

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Black Sea

Entity.

Evidence
625 documents · 104 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 21 Oct 2026
Measured
12% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
21 Oct 2026
16 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (6)

  • 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 (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

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

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 11 Oct 2026.

Ask about Black SeaWatch Black Sea

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 21 Oct 2026.