Entity

World Cup

FIFA's quadrennial global soccer tournament — the most-watched sporting event on Earth.

As of 19 Oct 2026Last evidence 19 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • England’s World Cup test against Tonga will show where power really lies in league

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Rugby League World Cup: Australia edge New Zealand 24-22 in thrilling start to tournament

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Saudi Arabia Won the World Cup Bid With a Stadium It Now Plans to Drop

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Netflix Scores Exclusive Rights To Stream Every FIFA World Cup 2030 Game In Spain

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 4 events and claims involving World Cup

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 27 mentions on 18 Oct 2026, against 37 on 27 Sept 2026 (-27%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 8 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 18 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,003 documents · 173 publishers · 13% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 19 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.128: about 87% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside World Cup

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.

FifaFranceEnglandAfricaUnited KingdomArgentina
  • Fifa · 366 shared documents
  • Spanish · 297 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • France · 250 shared documents
  • England · 222 shared documents
  • Fifa World Cup · 201 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Africa · 200 shared documents
  • Asian · 163 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United Kingdom · 151 shared documents
  • Europe · 143 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Argentina · 141 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 27 mentions on 18 Oct 2026 with 37 on 27 Sept 2026 (-27%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +575% from 4 Sept 2026 to 18 Oct 2026, between 4 and 49 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions World Cup, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/332f6c0e56f4f016d5ae05b1 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name world cup.

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

Events involving World Cup

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.

  • England’s World Cup test against Tonga will show where power really lies in league

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Rugby League World Cup: Australia edge New Zealand 24-22 in thrilling start to tournament

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Saudi Arabia Won the World Cup Bid With a Stadium It Now Plans to Drop

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • Netflix Scores Exclusive Rights To Stream Every FIFA World Cup 2030 Game In Spain

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from World Cup

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World Cup

Entity.

Evidence
1,003 documents · 173 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 12 Apr 2026, last seen 19 Oct 2026
Measured
13% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
19 Oct 2026
14 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (4)

  • 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 World Cup, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

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

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 8 Oct 2026.

Ask about World CupWatch World Cup

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 19 Oct 2026.