Entity

Kansas

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

As of 20 Oct 2026Last evidence 20 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Live updates: GOP airs frustration over Russia sanctions waiver; Trump heads to Kansas

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Driver in deadly Kansas soccer field crash released while investigation continues

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Six-year-old among two dead after Kansas woman drives through soccer game, with 10 more injured

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Oklahoma State vs. Houston Prediction, Odds, Picks for College Football Week 7

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Election: kansas & republican

    Registered event · reported 20 Jul 2026 to 21 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

All 5 events and claims involving Kansas

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 52 mentions on 20 Oct 2026, against 25 on 29 Sept 2026 (+108%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 20 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 19 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 19 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,069 documents · 236 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 20 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.069: about 93% 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 Kansas

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.

TexasIowaArizonaOhioTrumpOklahomaNational Footba…Tennessee
  • Texas · 288 shared documents
  • Missouri · 277 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iowa · 222 shared documents
  • Arizona · 214 shared documents
  • Ohio · 199 shared documents
  • Nebraska · 195 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Trump · 189 shared documents
  • Oklahoma · 186 shared documents
  • National Football League · 185 shared documents
  • Tennessee · 184 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 52 mentions on 20 Oct 2026 with 25 on 29 Sept 2026 (+108%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +136% from 8 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026, between 3 and 53 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Kansas, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/97689d9a26d9b99ec556af8e returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name kansas.

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

Events involving Kansas

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.

  • Live updates: GOP airs frustration over Russia sanctions waiver; Trump heads to Kansas

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Driver in deadly Kansas soccer field crash released while investigation continues

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Six-year-old among two dead after Kansas woman drives through soccer game, with 10 more injured

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Oklahoma State vs. Houston Prediction, Odds, Picks for College Football Week 7

    Reported claim · first reported 17 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Election: kansas & republican

    Registered event · reported 20 Jul 2026 to 21 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

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Kansas

Entity.

Evidence
1,069 documents · 236 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 20 Mar 2026, last seen 20 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
20 Oct 2026
15 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (4)

  • 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)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Kansas, 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 Kansas

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

  • 40% Yes

    “Will total votes cast in the 2026 midterm election for Senator from Kansas be between 1,100,000 and 1,200,000?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 Oct 2026

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

  • 35.5% Yes

    “Will the Republican Party candidate win the 2026 Kansas Senate election by 0%-5%?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 Oct 2026

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

1 more open market joined to Kansas but not about it
  • 73.5% Yes

    “Will the Republicans win Leavenworth County in the Kansas Senate race in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 Oct 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · “kansas” appears only as the place something happens (“in …”) · closes 31 Dec 2026

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 20 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 20 Oct 2026

  • 20 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 20 Oct 2026

  • 20 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 19 Oct 2026

  • 20 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 19 Oct 2026

4 changes recorded since 19 Oct 2026, 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 20 Oct 2026.