Entity

Middle East

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 7 domains, including World Wires, Venture Capital and Water.

As of 10 Oct 2026Last evidence 10 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • OpenAI Hires Ismail Elmas From SpaceX to Lead Sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Shipping group Maersk raises UK, Ireland inland emergency fuel surcharge due to Middle East conflict

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

  • Oil prices rise sharply on Middle East tensions and US hurricane threat

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • WTO raises merchandise trade growth forecast to 3.9% as AI boom offsets hit from Middle East

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Middle East war sharpens focus on ASEAN energy security plans

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Middle East

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 164 mentions on 10 Oct 2026, against 205 on 19 Sept 2026 (-20%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Middle East yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 9 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

5,165 documents · 398 publishers · 32% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 10 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.315: about 69% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 4 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Middle East

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.

IranOilIsraelTrumpHormuzSaudi ArabiaUnited StatesChinaYemen
  • Iran · 2,487 shared documents
  • Oil · 2,083 shared documents
  • Israel · 1,464 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,450 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 1,407 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,274 shared documents
  • United States · 1,252 shared documents
  • Europe · 1,236 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • China · 1,101 shared documents
  • Yemen · 911 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +811% from 26 Aug 2026 to 10 Oct 2026, between 15 and 266 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Middle East, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/b94dd10528bd60151e2c4b33 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name middle east.

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  "outlets": 306,
  "domains": 7,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-10T17:30:17.444527+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "whereFrom": {
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    "label": "609 mentions across 7 domains",
    "children": [
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      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 603 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 Middle East

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.

  • OpenAI Hires Ismail Elmas From SpaceX to Lead Sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Shipping group Maersk raises UK, Ireland inland emergency fuel surcharge due to Middle East conflict

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Oil prices rise sharply on Middle East tensions and US hurricane threat

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • WTO raises merchandise trade growth forecast to 3.9% as AI boom offsets hit from Middle East

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Middle East war sharpens focus on ASEAN energy security plans

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Oil, fuel supply buffers are thinning as Middle East conflict continues, Chevron CEO says

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Putin offers help to Iran to end Middle East war ahead of CIS summit | Hindustan Times

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iran war: Shell sees Middle East oil flows at 80% as Saudi Aramco warns inventories may take 2 years to rebuild

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

    corroborated

  • Middle East oil exports top pre-war levels in September, but tanker attacks increase

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • World Bank says Middle East economy to contract 2.1% in 2026 on Iran war

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier George H.W. Bush Arrives In Thailand After 6-Month Middle East Deployment

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • OPEC+ to keep November oil targets unchanged amid Middle East war

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Middle East

Entity.

Evidence
5,165 documents · 398 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 26 Mar 2026, last seen 10 Oct 2026
Measured
32% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
10 Oct 2026
22 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • 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.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Middle East, 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.

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

Ask about Middle EastWatch Middle East

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.