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 9 Oct 2026Last evidence 9 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Strait of Hormuz

    Registered event · reported 24 May 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

  • 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

  • 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

All 13 events and claims involving Hormuz

What changed

  • Attention Hormuz has 526 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Hormuz yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 8 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

3,205 documents · 250 publishers · 39% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 9 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.385: 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.

IranTrumpMiddle EastSaudi ArabiaUnited StatesIsraelYemenRed Sea
  • Iran · 2,574 shared documents
  • Oil · 2,176 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 1,382 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,365 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,168 shared documents
  • United States · 1,124 shared documents
  • Israel · 995 shared documents
  • Yemen · 932 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 799 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 769 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Hormuz has 526 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch Hormuz to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of Hormuz.

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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Exclusive: G7’s 100-million-barrel pledge tied to unfinished March emergency oil release

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 10 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Evidence
2,022 documents · 117 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 7 Apr 2026, last seen 9 Oct 2026
Measured
24% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
9 Oct 2026
10 links from here

What is claimed about it (9)

  • 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 (1)

Who it moves with (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 Hormuz, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

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.

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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 9 Oct 2026.