Entity

Mideast

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 1 coverage vertical, including World Wires.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 16 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Iran President says conflict in Mideast amounts to 'ecocide'

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • BOK chief stresses need to curb inflation amid AI boom, Mideast crisis

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Dollar stays near 18-month high as Mideast conflict, inflation data in focus

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • (2nd LD) Seoul shares plunge over 3 pct on tech sell-off amid Mideast, inflation woes

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 4 events and claims involving Mideast

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 5 mentions on 15 Oct 2026, against 7 on 24 Sept 2026 (-29%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

161 documents · 38 publishers · 26% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 16 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.255: about 75% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Mideast

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.

IranMiddle EastOilTrumpSaudi ArabiaHormuzYemenIsrael
  • Iran · 97 shared documents
  • Middle East · 89 shared documents
  • Oil · 83 shared documents
  • Trump · 62 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 60 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 56 shared documents
  • Yemen · 54 shared documents
  • Israel · 43 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 41 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • UN · 32 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 5 mentions on 15 Oct 2026 with 7 on 24 Sept 2026 (-29%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +25% from 2 Sept 2026 to 15 Oct 2026, between 3 and 15 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Mideast, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/968960a75135d2f1e8ca6915 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name mideast.

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Events involving Mideast

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.

  • Iran President says conflict in Mideast amounts to 'ecocide'

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • BOK chief stresses need to curb inflation amid AI boom, Mideast crisis

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Dollar stays near 18-month high as Mideast conflict, inflation data in focus

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • (2nd LD) Seoul shares plunge over 3 pct on tech sell-off amid Mideast, inflation woes

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Mideast

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Mideast

Entity.

Evidence
161 documents · 38 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 16 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
14 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.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

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

What it connects to

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.

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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 17 Oct 2026.