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 Nov 2026Last evidence 8 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Say Two Oil Tankers Hit Mines, Catch Fire Near Strait Of Hormuz

    Reported event · first reported 4 Nov 2026 to 5 Nov 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

  • Strait of Hormuz

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Iran's army says forces 'stronger' than at start of war, Hormuz to stay closed

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

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 6 Nov 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Iran Reports 5 Vessels Hit Mines in Hormuz While Offering 2-Day Reopening Deal

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

All 13 events and claims involving Hormuz

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 91 mentions on 8 Nov 2026, against 121 on 18 Oct 2026 (-25%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from watch to flagged on 7 Nov 2026 (4 changes recorded since 2 Nov 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 7 Nov 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?” moved from 22% to 8% Yes since 24 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,745 documents · 322 publishers · 10% say something specific about it · last evidence 8 Nov 2026

  • Gap: 10% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
  • Gap: 2 receipts 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 · 4,685 shared documents
  • Oil · 3,928 shared documents
  • Trump · 2,584 shared documents
  • Middle East · 2,455 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 2,187 shared documents
  • United States · 2,095 shared documents
  • Israel · 1,995 shared documents
  • Yemen · 1,743 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 1,313 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Red Sea · 1,218 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 91 mentions on 8 Nov 2026 with 121 on 18 Oct 2026 (-25%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +5% from 24 Sept 2026 to 8 Nov 2026, between 68 and 245 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Hormuz, day by day.

Market price, cited

8% Yes

Polymarket · priced 8 Nov 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 22% → 8% Yes (-14pts, from 24 Sept 2026 to 8 Nov 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": "2026-11-08",
  "mentions": 91,
  "domains": 11,
  "node": {
    "id": "sb:e/c0ec2e6075dbc1602e45194e",
    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
    "rest": "https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/c0ec2e6075dbc1602e45194e",
    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-11-08T17:19:01.455836+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "fading",
  "marketPrice": {
    "question": "Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31?",
    "yesPct": 8,
    "pricedOn": "2026-11-08",
    "attribution": "the market's own price",
    "relation": "actor-in"
  },
  "history": {
    "since": "2026-11-02T13:09:45.929887+00:00",
    "changes": 4
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "91 mentions across 11 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "11 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 11,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 85 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.

  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Say Two Oil Tankers Hit Mines, Catch Fire Near Strait Of Hormuz

    Reported event · first reported 4 Nov 2026 to 5 Nov 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Say Two Oil Tankers Hit Mines, Catch Fire Near Strait Of Hormuz · corroborated · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 6 separate publishers
    • Iran's IRGC says four tankers ablaze after hitting mines near Strait of Hormuz · reported by two · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 4 separate publishers

  • Strait of Hormuz

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 8 Nov 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Iran's army says forces 'stronger' than at start of war, Hormuz to stay closed

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

    reported by two

  • Israel Iran Conflict

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 6 Nov 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Iran Reports 5 Vessels Hit Mines in Hormuz While Offering 2-Day Reopening Deal

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

    single source

  • Africa's LNG Exports Set to Soar 175% as Buyers Flee Hormuz

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

    single source

  • South Korea to expand anti-piracy unit operations closer to Strait of Hormuz

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iran war latest: Third tanker catches fire in Strait of Hormuz, Iranian Navy says

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

    reported by two

  • Iran Opens Strait of Hormuz to China and India as U.S. Blockade Continues

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

    single source

  • Unclear what comes next as US strikes Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz

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

    corroborated

  • Iran Says Hormuz Can Reopen in 2 Days as Khamenei Grants Negotiating Authority

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

    corroborated

  • Iran Offered 2-Day Hormuz Reopening as IRGC Claimed 2 Tanker Mine Strikes

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

    single source

  • Iran offers deal on Hormuz Strait, Netanyahu wants to 'finish the job'

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 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.

Hormuz

Entity.

Evidence
5,745 documents · 322 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 12 Apr 2026, last seen 8 Nov 2026
Measured
10% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Nov 2026
24 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (2)

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

Recorded history

  • 7 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 6 Nov 2026

  • 7 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 6 Nov 2026

  • 6 Nov 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 31 Oct 2026

  • 6 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 31 Oct 2026

4 changes recorded since 2 Nov 2026, newest first.

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 8 Nov 2026.