Entity

Pentagon

The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense; shorthand for the U.S. military establishment.

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Pentagon memo outlines plan to operationalize new ‘FORTRESS America’ program office

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • US senator says he was denied access to damaged military base in Qatar

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

  • Pentagon names 4 directed-energy weapons for counter-drone program at US bases

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

  • Pentagon Taps Elon Musk To Help Military Decide Which Weapons To Build Next. Musk’s Company SpaceX Already Holds $8 Billion In Defense Contracts

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

  • Supra Elemental Recovery Awarded U.S. Department of Defense Contract to Advance High-Purity Scandium Recovery

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

All 12 events and claims involving Pentagon

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 117 mentions on 8 Oct 2026, against 97 on 17 Sept 2026 (+21%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Pentagon yet.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,791 documents · 247 publishers · 26% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.26: about 74% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Pentagon

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.

TrumpUnited StatesIranAIChinaNavyWhite HouseHegseth
  • Trump · 618 shared documents
  • United States · 548 shared documents
  • Iran · 539 shared documents
  • AI · 413 shared documents
  • United States Congress · 404 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • China · 369 shared documents
  • Navy · 365 shared documents
  • President Donald Trump · 334 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • White House · 271 shared documents
  • Hegseth · 254 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +2240% from 24 Aug 2026 to 8 Oct 2026, between 5 and 169 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Pentagon, day by day.

Market price, cited

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On the desk: Defense Desk

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Pentagon

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.

  • Pentagon memo outlines plan to operationalize new ‘FORTRESS America’ program office

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • US senator says he was denied access to damaged military base in Qatar

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

    corroborated

  • Pentagon names 4 directed-energy weapons for counter-drone program at US bases

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

    corroborated

  • Pentagon Taps Elon Musk To Help Military Decide Which Weapons To Build Next. Musk’s Company SpaceX Already Holds $8 Billion In Defense Contracts

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

    corroborated

  • Supra Elemental Recovery Awarded U.S. Department of Defense Contract to Advance High-Purity Scandium Recovery

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

    corroborated

  • Pentagon Creates Autonomous Warfare Command as US Military Accelerates Shift to AI and Drones

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • The US military says its withdrawal of troops from Iraq is complete

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Why the Pentagon just dropped $450M on tungsten mining

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Pentagon’s Hegseth says 20 percent of US generals, admirals cut, ‘no fatties, no trannies’

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Pentagon to cut 20% of general and admiral positions by Jan. 1

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Anthropic's Pentagon blacklist upheld in US appeals court: How the conflict unfolded

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Pentagon

Entity.

Evidence
1,791 documents · 247 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 23 Feb 2017, last seen 8 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 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

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