Entity

Michigan

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 40 domains, including Agriculture Food, AI for Small Business and AI Policy.

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • U.S. midterms 2026

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

    Open event

  • Watch live: Michigan gubernatorial hopefuls Benson, James go head-to-head in debate

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

  • Holtec submits key safety report to NRC, advancing construction permit process for two SMR-300 reactors at Palisades site in Michigan

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Obama to appear at Abdul El-Sayed rally in critical Michigan Senate race

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

  • Michigan attorney general candidate attacks Democratic rival over sex work policy

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 8 events and claims involving Michigan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 65 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 39 on 17 Sept 2026 (+67%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Michigan yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,077 documents · 288 publishers · 24% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.235: about 77% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Michigan

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.

TexasTrumpOhioAIPennsylvaniaIllinoisRepublicanSenate
  • Texas · 284 shared documents
  • Trump · 269 shared documents
  • Ohio · 248 shared documents
  • AI · 225 shared documents
  • Pennsylvania · 215 shared documents
  • Illinois · 195 shared documents
  • Republican · 193 shared documents
  • Senate · 184 shared documents
  • United States Congress · 178 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Jersey · 176 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +1200% from 30 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 4 and 82 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Michigan, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/f4117380c108b60ee737779f returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name michigan.

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  "label": "Michigan",
  "asOf": "2026-10-08",
  "mentions": 65,
  "domains": 40,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-08T21:52:38.794589+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "65 mentions across 40 domains",
    "children": [
      {
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        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "40 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 59 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 Michigan

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 8 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Watch live: Michigan gubernatorial hopefuls Benson, James go head-to-head in debate

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

    single source

  • Holtec submits key safety report to NRC, advancing construction permit process for two SMR-300 reactors at Palisades site in Michigan

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Obama to appear at Abdul El-Sayed rally in critical Michigan Senate race

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

    corroborated

  • Michigan attorney general candidate attacks Democratic rival over sex work policy

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Wisconsin vs. Michigan State Prediction, Odds, Picks for College Football Week 5

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

    single source

  • Doug Lloyd blasts Eli Savit’s ‘dangerous’ sex work policy in Michigan AG race

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

    corroborated

  • Election: michigan & republican

    Registered event · reported 17 Jul 2026 to 22 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from Michigan

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Michigan

Entity.

Evidence
1,077 documents · 288 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 31 Mar 2026, last seen 8 Oct 2026
Measured
24% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
19 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (6)

  • 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 (3)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

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

Markets materially about Michigan

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

  • 66.5% Yes

    “Will the Michigan 2026 Senate race be within 5%?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Oct 2026

    Relation: subject of the question · the question opens with “michigan” · close date not stated in the question

  • 30.5% Yes

    “Will total votes cast in the 2026 midterm election for Senator from Michigan be between 4,800,000 and 5,000,000?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Oct 2026

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

  • 95.5% Yes

    “Will the Democrats win the Michigan governor race in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 8 Oct 2026

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

What it connects to

Related records.

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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 8 Oct 2026.