Entity

Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman through which roughly a fifth of the world's oil passes.

As of 11 Oct 2026Last evidence 11 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Strait of Hormuz

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 10 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Trump envoy kept financial ties to firm behind $15 billion Hormuz-bypass oil pipeline plan

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 8 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Brent Holds Above $100 as Hormuz Tanker Traffic Hits Two-Month Low

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Iran lost complete control of Hormuz, its economy is in 'total freefall': Rubio

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 11 events and claims involving Hormuz

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 98 mentions on 11 Oct 2026, against 106 on 20 Sept 2026 (-8%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Hormuz yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 10 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

3,331 documents · 254 publishers · 39% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 11 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.389: about 61% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Hormuz

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.

IranTrumpMiddle EastSaudi ArabiaUnited StatesIsraelYemenRed Sea
  • Iran · 2,687 shared documents
  • Oil · 2,265 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 1,451 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,414 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,213 shared documents
  • United States · 1,180 shared documents
  • Israel · 1,033 shared documents
  • Yemen · 978 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 824 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 798 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +165% from 27 Aug 2026 to 11 Oct 2026, between 19 and 191 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Hormuz, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/c0ec2e6075dbc1602e45194e returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name hormuz.

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

Events involving Hormuz

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.

  • Strait of Hormuz

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 10 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Trump envoy kept financial ties to firm behind $15 billion Hormuz-bypass oil pipeline plan

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 8 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Brent Holds Above $100 as Hormuz Tanker Traffic Hits Two-Month Low

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Iran lost complete control of Hormuz, its economy is in 'total freefall': Rubio

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Attacks on tankers in Hormuz hit highest of any week since start of Iran war, sources say

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • 11 Indians among 12 crew injured after vessel hit by projectile in Strait of Hormuz; MEA condemns attack

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Trump says rise of petrol prices no longer due to Strait of Hormuz

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iran says Strait of Hormuz could reopen within a week as Tehran weighs US response

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Attack risks rise for tankers as Iran vows to block more Hormuz routes

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Increased vessel attacks drive Hormuz oil exports 'sharply lower', report says

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Evidence
488 documents · 44 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 1 Sept 2026, last seen 11 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
11 Oct 2026
10 links from here

What is claimed about it (6)

  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

Who it moves with (4)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Hormuz, 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.

Markets materially about Hormuz

Markets whose question is about Hormuz or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Hormuz and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

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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 11 Oct 2026.