Entity

Istanbul

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 13 coverage verticals, including Turkey, AI Tech and Saudi Arabia.

As of 2 Nov 2026Last evidence 2 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Istanbul Bosporus to host Republic Day yacht race with 650 sailors

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 1 event and claims involving Istanbul

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 20 mentions on 1 Nov 2026, against 23 on 11 Oct 2026 (-13%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 26 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 20 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 1 Nov 2026.

How well we know this

1,049 documents · 132 publishers · 6% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 2 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.055: about 95% 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 Istanbul

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.

FranceIranMiddle EastUnited KingdomGermanyRussiaIsraelOil
  • Turkish · 836 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Sabah · 441 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • France · 203 shared documents
  • Iran · 181 shared documents
  • Middle East · 166 shared documents
  • United Kingdom · 160 shared documents
  • Germany · 157 shared documents
  • Russia · 154 shared documents
  • Israel · 149 shared documents
  • Oil · 135 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 20 mentions on 1 Nov 2026 with 23 on 11 Oct 2026 (-13%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions -13% from 17 Sept 2026 to 1 Nov 2026, between 14 and 55 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Istanbul, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/c812a48668c8e445ec24198c returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name istanbul.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Istanbul

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.

  • Istanbul Bosporus to host Republic Day yacht race with 650 sailors

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

Walk the record from Istanbul

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.

Istanbul

Entity.

Evidence
1,049 documents · 132 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 2 Nov 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
2 Nov 2026
12 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (1)

  • 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 Istanbul, 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 Istanbul

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

No open market in the record is materially about Istanbul: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

1 more open market joined to Istanbul but not about it
  • 47% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Istanbul be 17°C on November 3?”

    Polymarket · priced 2 Nov 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 3 Nov 2026

2 markets past their stated close date are not shown as open: “Will the highest temperature in Istanbul be 17°C on November 1?” (closed 1 Nov 2026); “Will the highest temperature in Istanbul be 15°C on October 31?” (closed 31 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 26 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 24 Oct 2026

  • 26 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 24 Oct 2026

  • 24 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 19 Aug 2026

  • 24 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 19 Aug 2026

4 changes recorded since 20 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about IstanbulWatch Istanbul

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 2 Nov 2026.