Entity

Black Sea

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

As of 15 Oct 2026Last evidence 15 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • At least 11 missing after two ships struck off Bulgaria in latest Black Sea attack, official says

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

  • Black Sea Drone Attacks Expose Holes in Bulgarian Security Strategy

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Black Sea Oil Shipping Insurance Costs Surge to $2.5 Million

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 3 events and claims involving Black Sea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 34 mentions on 15 Oct 2026, against 16 on 24 Sept 2026 (+112%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 5 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 14 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

531 documents · 95 publishers · 11% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 15 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.107: about 89% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt 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 UnionZelenskyyIranPutin
  • Russia · 399 shared documents
  • Ukraine · 380 shared documents
  • Oil · 209 shared documents
  • Turkish · 205 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Europe · 168 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • European Union · 137 shared documents
  • Zelenskyy · 123 shared documents
  • Iran · 121 shared documents
  • Putin · 116 shared documents
  • UN · 116 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 34 mentions on 15 Oct 2026 with 16 on 24 Sept 2026 (+112%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +240% from 9 Sept 2026 to 15 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

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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.

  • At least 11 missing after two ships struck off Bulgaria in latest Black Sea attack, official says

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Black Sea Drone Attacks Expose Holes in Bulgarian Security Strategy

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Black Sea Oil Shipping Insurance Costs Surge to $2.5 Million

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

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Black Sea

Entity.

Evidence
531 documents · 95 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 15 Oct 2026
Measured
11% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
15 Oct 2026
13 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (3)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more 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

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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.

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 5 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 15 Oct 2026.