Entity

Middle East

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

As of 6 Oct 2026Outlets 279

Who Middle East moves with

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.

IranOilTrumpIsraelHormuzUnited StatesSaudi ArabiaChinaAfrica
  • Iran · 2,196 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,839 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,288 shared documents
  • Israel · 1,278 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 1,253 shared documents
  • United States · 1,112 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,109 shared documents
  • Europe · 1,052 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • China · 972 shared documents
  • Africa · 906 shared documents

Middle East has 549 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch Middle East to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of Middle East.

For developers

Call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name middle east.

{
  "name": "middle east",
  "label": "Middle East",
  "asOf": "2026-10-06",
  "mentions": 549,
  "outlets": 279,
  "domains": 7,
  "coverageTrend": "too few mentions to measure",
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "549 mentions across 7 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "3 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 3,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "7 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 7,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 546 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.

Walk the record from Middle East

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.

Middle East

Entity.

Evidence
4,476 documents · 354 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 6 Oct 2026
Measured
32% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
6 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.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

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. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

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