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 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Strait of Hormuz

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 7 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • 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

  • 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

  • Iran Strikes Hormuz Tankers Daily as Gulf Oil Exports Reached Pre-War Levels

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • 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

All 14 events and claims involving Hormuz

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 146 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 117 on 17 Sept 2026 (+25%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Hormuz yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?” moved from 34% to 18% Yes since 24 Aug 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

3,114 documents · 247 publishers · 38% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.38: about 62% 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 · 2,500 shared documents
  • Oil · 2,104 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,344 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,328 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,139 shared documents
  • United States · 1,092 shared documents
  • Israel · 967 shared documents
  • Yemen · 913 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 785 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 735 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +317% from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 19 and 191 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Hormuz, day by day.

Market price, cited

18% Yes

priced 8 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 34% → 18% Yes (-16pts, from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 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

“Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

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 7 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • 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

    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

  • Iran Strikes Hormuz Tankers Daily as Gulf Oil Exports Reached Pre-War Levels

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 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

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 4 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Iraq Moves 2 Million Barrels Of Crude Beyond Strait Of Hormuz In First Such Operation In Decades

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Oil tanker struck by unknown projectile in Strait of Hormuz: UKMTO

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

    corroborated

  • Hormuz tanker attacks mount, putting oil flows at risk

    Reported claim · first reported 2 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 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iran war live: US moves 2,000 Marines to Middle East, tanker hit in Hormuz

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

    corroborated

  • Hormuz crude flows return to pre-war levels, yet oil may still stay at $90–$100 | Here's why

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

    corroborated

  • Oil Flows Are Up, but Iran Is Still Menacing the Strait of Hormuz

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Hormuz

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Evidence
228 documents · 75 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 3 Sept 2026, last seen 8 Oct 2026
Measured
17% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
10 links from here

Links from here: not yet read.

What is claimed about it (0)

not listed: see above

Situations it is named in (0)

not listed: see above

Who it moves with (10)

For machines: this record as JSON

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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.

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.

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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 8 Oct 2026.