Entity

Mideast

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 2 domains, including World Wires and Risk Litigation News.

As of 12 Oct 2026Last evidence 12 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Oil prices surge on worries of shipping attacks and Gulf of Mexico hurricane

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • (LEAD) Seoul shares open lower on inflation, Mideast woes

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

All 2 events and claims involving Mideast

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 15 mentions on 12 Oct 2026, against 8 on 21 Sept 2026 (+88%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Mideast yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 11 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

146 documents · 32 publishers · 38% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 12 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.384: about 62% 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 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 ArabiaHormuzUnited StatesYemenIsrael
  • Iran · 89 shared documents
  • Middle East · 82 shared documents
  • Oil · 74 shared documents
  • Trump · 57 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 52 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 50 shared documents
  • United States · 46 shared documents
  • Yemen · 46 shared documents
  • Israel · 42 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 36 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +275% from 2 Sept 2026 to 12 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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  "name": "mideast",
  "label": "Mideast",
  "asOf": "2026-10-12",
  "mentions": 82,
  "outlets": 24,
  "domains": 2,
  "node": {
    "id": "sb:e/968960a75135d2f1e8ca6915",
    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
    "rest": "https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/968960a75135d2f1e8ca6915",
    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-12T19:05:00.007637+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "82 mentions across 2 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "2 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 2,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 76 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 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.

  • Oil prices surge on worries of shipping attacks and Gulf of Mexico hurricane

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • (LEAD) Seoul shares open lower on inflation, Mideast woes

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

    corroborated

Walk the record from Mideast

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.

Mideast

Entity.

Evidence
146 documents · 32 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 12 Oct 2026
Measured
38% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
12 Oct 2026
13 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (2)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (1)

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

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

Related records.

Pull a thread

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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 12 Oct 2026.