Entity

Britain

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 4 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Weather Climate and Economic Dev.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Iran and Russia are stepping up hybrid campaigns in Britain, UK spy chief says

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

  • IMF projects India, Britain to surpass Japan in GDP rankings in 2027

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

All 2 events and claims involving Britain

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 106 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 28 on 26 Sept 2026 (+279%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,161 documents · 269 publishers · 3% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.025: about 98% 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 Britain

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.

United KingdomFranceBurnhamAndy BurnhamIsraelIranTrumpUnited StatesEngland

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 106 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 28 on 26 Sept 2026 (+279%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +2020% from 3 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 4 and 126 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Britain, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/879d6e8e3db20dbbff8fd987 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name britain.

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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
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    "changes": 0
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    "children": [
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        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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      {
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      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 165 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
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  }
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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Britain

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.

  • Iran and Russia are stepping up hybrid campaigns in Britain, UK spy chief says

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

    single source

  • IMF projects India, Britain to surpass Japan in GDP rankings in 2027

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

    single source

Walk the record from Britain

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.

Britain

Entity.

Evidence
2,161 documents · 269 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 18 Jul 2026, last seen 17 Oct 2026
Measured
3% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
12 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (2)

  • 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 Britain, 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 7 Oct 2026.

Ask about BritainWatch Britain

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 17 Oct 2026.