Entity

Red Sea

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 5 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Water and Microplastics.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Ethiopian troops enter town on border with Eritrea, stoking war fears

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 1 event and claims involving Red Sea

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 50 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 31 on 26 Sept 2026 (+61%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,570 documents · 152 publishers · 4% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.04: about 96% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Red Sea

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.

IranSaudi ArabiaYemenOilHormuzMiddle EastIsrael
  • Iran · 1,184 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,180 shared documents
  • Yemen · 1,178 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,022 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 918 shared documents
  • Middle East · 719 shared documents
  • Israel · 569 shared documents
  • UN · 454 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Mandeb Strait · 414 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • East-West · 357 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 50 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 31 on 26 Sept 2026 (+61%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +178% from 8 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 18 and 95 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Red Sea, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/2fc5f38e5afa1a3aa22c24d3 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name red sea.

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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
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    "changes": 0
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      {
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 98 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
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Events involving Red Sea

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.

  • Ethiopian troops enter town on border with Eritrea, stoking war fears

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

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Red Sea

Entity.

Evidence
1,570 documents · 152 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 17 Oct 2026
Measured
4% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
11 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

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

What it connects to

Related records.

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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.