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 14 Oct 2026Last evidence 14 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

  • US-Iran war: Yemen says 950 Houthis killed; Iran denies RAF Fairford plot, IRGC warns foreign powers off Strait of Hormuz

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 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

  • 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

All 11 events and claims involving Hormuz

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 106 mentions on 14 Oct 2026, against 163 on 23 Sept 2026 (-35%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from watch to flagged on 12 Oct 2026 (12 changes recorded since 4 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 13 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

3,541 documents · 260 publishers · 10% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 14 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.095: about 91% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • 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 · 2,852 shared documents
  • Oil · 2,429 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,547 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,500 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,322 shared documents
  • United States · 1,241 shared documents
  • Israel · 1,104 shared documents
  • Yemen · 1,072 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 870 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 841 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 106 mentions on 14 Oct 2026 with 163 on 23 Sept 2026 (-35%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +342% from 30 Aug 2026 to 14 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

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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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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

  • US-Iran war: Yemen says 950 Houthis killed; Iran denies RAF Fairford plot, IRGC warns foreign powers off Strait of Hormuz

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • 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

  • Tanker attacked off Qatar as Iran claims route transporting oil through strait of Hormuz will be ‘closed’

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • 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

  • Shortage fears grow as attacks on tankers in Strait of Hormuz push oil prices higher

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

    single source

  • 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

  • Oil Jumps 2% as Saudi Attacks and Tanker Strikes Revive Hormuz Fears

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

    single source

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

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

    single source

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Hormuz

Entity.

Evidence
3,541 documents · 260 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 14 Oct 2026
Measured
10% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
14 Oct 2026
21 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (9)

  • 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)

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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

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Recorded history

  • 12 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 11 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 11 Oct 2026

  • 11 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 11 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 10 Oct 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 9 Oct 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 9 Oct 2026

  • 9 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 7 Oct 2026

  • 9 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 7 Oct 2026

12 changes recorded since 4 Oct 2026; the newest 8 shown, newest first.

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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 14 Oct 2026.