Entity

Iowa

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 10 domains, including World Wires, Business and Water.

As of 10 Oct 2026Last evidence 10 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • U.S. midterms 2026

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 10 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Turek, Hinson spar in first Iowa Senate debate: 3 takeaways

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

  • What the exclusion of soybeans from U.S.-China trade talks means for Iowa

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

All 3 events and claims involving Iowa

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 47 mentions on 10 Oct 2026, against 39 on 19 Sept 2026 (+21%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Iowa yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 9 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

917 documents · 196 publishers · 35% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 10 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.347: about 65% 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 Iowa

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.

TexasIllinoisTrumpOhioMissouriMichiganMinnesotaSenate
  • Texas · 217 shared documents
  • Illinois · 207 shared documents
  • Trump · 207 shared documents
  • Ohio · 206 shared documents
  • Missouri · 181 shared documents
  • Michigan · 175 shared documents
  • Kansas · 173 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Nebraska · 156 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Minnesota · 153 shared documents
  • Senate · 141 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +1467% from 30 Aug 2026 to 10 Oct 2026, between 2 and 74 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Iowa, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Iowa yet. Ask about Iowa

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/c3d7cebeb10d4ece9cb81b68 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name iowa.

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  "label": "Iowa",
  "asOf": "2026-10-10",
  "mentions": 59,
  "outlets": 38,
  "domains": 10,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-10T21:56:07.640781+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "59 mentions across 10 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
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        "children": {
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "10 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 10,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 53 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 Iowa

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.

  • U.S. midterms 2026

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 10 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Turek, Hinson spar in first Iowa Senate debate: 3 takeaways

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

    corroborated

  • What the exclusion of soybeans from U.S.-China trade talks means for Iowa

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

    single source

Walk the record from Iowa

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.

Iowa

Entity.

Evidence
917 documents · 196 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 1 Jun 2026, last seen 10 Oct 2026
Measured
35% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
10 Oct 2026
13 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (2)

  • 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 (1)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Iowa, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Markets materially about Iowa

Markets whose question is about Iowa or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Iowa and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

  • 57.5% Yes

    “Will the Republicans win the Iowa Senate race in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 10 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “iowa” is named in the question · closes 31 Dec 2026

  • 45.5% Yes

    “Will Democrats win the Iowa Governor election and Republicans win the Iowa Senate election?”

    Polymarket · priced 10 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “iowa” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

  • 20.5% Yes

    “Will the Democratic Party candidate win the 2026 Iowa gubernatorial election by 6%-9%?”

    Polymarket · priced 10 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “iowa” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

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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 10 Oct 2026.