Entity · moving across domains

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 13 Oct 2026Last evidence 13 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Strait of Hormuz

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 13 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Super oil tanker catches fire after hitting sea mine in Strait of Hormuz

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • IRGC reports fire aboard LPG carrier in Strait of Hormuz, warns against unauthorized transit

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

  • 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

All 13 events and claims involving Hormuz

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 131 mentions on 12 Oct 2026, against 130 on 21 Sept 2026 (+1%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Hormuz yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 12 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?” moved from 32% to 14% Yes since 28 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

3,467 documents · 257 publishers · 40% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 13 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.395: about 61% 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 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.

IranOilTrumpMiddle EastSaudi ArabiaUnited StatesIsraelYemenRed Sea
  • Iran · 2,798 shared documents
  • Oil · 2,368 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,520 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,472 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,290 shared documents
  • United States · 1,220 shared documents
  • Israel · 1,080 shared documents
  • Yemen · 1,043 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 857 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 833 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +185% from 28 Aug 2026 to 12 Oct 2026, between 19 and 191 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Hormuz, day by day.

Market price, cited

14% Yes

Polymarket · priced 13 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 32% → 14% Yes (-18pts, from 28 Aug 2026 to 13 Oct 2026)

on “Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Hormuz

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.

{
  "name": "hormuz",
  "label": "Hormuz",
  "asOf": "2026-10-13",
  "mentions": 131,
  "domains": 34,
  "node": {
    "id": "sb:e/c0ec2e6075dbc1602e45194e",
    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
    "rest": "https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/c0ec2e6075dbc1602e45194e",
    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-13T15:06:14.909305+00:00",
    "snapshot": "deploy bb7de6a747cbc3228844a2e2b8b2e384eb0fb95f"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "marketPrice": {
    "question": "Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?",
    "yesPct": 14,
    "pricedOn": "2026-10-13",
    "attribution": "the market's own price",
    "relation": "actor-in"
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "131 mentions across 34 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "34 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 125 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 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 13 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Super oil tanker catches fire after hitting sea mine in Strait of Hormuz

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • IRGC reports fire aboard LPG carrier in Strait of Hormuz, warns against unauthorized transit

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

    reported by two

  • 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

    reported by two

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

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Tanker Attacks Spread Beyond the Strait of Hormuz as Gulf Freight Costs Soar

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

    single source

  • Saudi envoy says allied Yemeni forces capture Bab el Mandeb strait from Houthis: What to know

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • 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

    reported by two

  • 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

    reported by two

  • 11 Indian Seafarers Injured After Attack On Commercial Tanker In Strait of Hormuz

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

    reported by two

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

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Hormuz

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.

citations

Entity, reached from Hormuz.

Evidence
1,157 documents · 101 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
Added automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 10 May 2026, last seen 12 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
13 Oct 2026
10 links from here

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

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.

Other 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.

Pull a thread

Ask about HormuzWatch Hormuz

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 13 Oct 2026.