Record

Strait of Hormuz

Ledger computed 3 Oct 2026Newest source item 3 Oct 2026

The record holds 1,598 claims about what happened and 428 views, each with who said it. 22 claims are carried by three or more separate reports, 83 by two, and 1,493 by one so far. 113 lines have been corrected or removed, and each old line is kept.

This record is current: the newest source item is from 2026-10-03, inside its daily cadence.

Real every count: lib/claims_hormuz.json, rows counted at buildReal currency: the maintained Hormuz record (hormuz.json)

GET https://sigb.ai/api/record/hormuz

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    "views": 428,
    "retired": 113,
    "byReports": {
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      "two": 83,
      "threeOrMore": 22
    },
    "disputedPairs": 36
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The live endpoint returns the full maintained record. Shown here: the fields this page is built from, computed from the same committed files at build.

What happened, and what was said about it

Kept in two columns. A view, however well placed, never lands in the left one.

What happened

The best-carried new claim on each of the latest days, each with its reports

Before the war, about 125 large vessels a day. In a day reported on 11 Sep, 7.

one square per vessel · filled: crossed that day (7 of 125)

What was said about it

The views with the most separate articles behind them. Views carry no date in the ledger.

Real claims_hormuz.json: kernel rows (left), frame rows (right)

5 outlets, 4 reports

“The U.S. military struck the tankers after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy ships.”

5 outlets, 4 separate reportsOn the left, 5 dots: a plain headcount sees 5 outlets. On the right, the same dots in 4 rings, one ring per separate report, holding 2, 1, 1, 1.A headcount seesThe record counts5 outlets4 separate reports
  • Tasnim
    first seen 6 Sep · carried by 2 outlets
    • Al-Monitor
    • Daily Sabah economy
  • Irgc Navy
    first seen 5 Sep · carried by 1 outlet
    • Al-Monitor
  • Al-Monitor
    first seen 5 Sep · carried by 1 outlet
    • Al-Monitor (its own report)
  • World Bank
    first seen 6 Sep · carried by 1 outlet
    • CNBC
4separate reports5outlets carrying them
Each box is a separate report. The outlets hanging under it repeated that report, so they count once. Shown as: “4 separate reports (5 outlets carrying them)”.

Real claims_hormuz.json: chains for this claim, grouped by origin; chosen at build as the 3–4 report claim with the most outlets

Outlets disagree

Two accounts of the same thing, both kept, never averaged. The ledger marks 36 claims as disputed by another.

First seen 9 Sep

Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz.

3 separate reports (4 outlets carrying them)

First seen 9 Sep

On Wednesday, Iran said it attacked 20 American vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

One report so far

Real claims_hormuz.json: a disputedWith pair, the one with the most separate reports between them

Events

The claims carried by the most separate reports. Each event keeps one name while reports join it and corrections change it.

How the Hormuz event keeps its name

Real claims_hormuz.json: kernel rows ranked by separate reports

Change log

Corrections are added and the old line stays, struck through. 113 lines in all: 104 replaced by a later report in the same thread, 9 removed because every outlet carrying them sits outside this subject's beat.

Real corrections: claims_hormuz.json retired rowsReal daily counts: the maintained Hormuz record (hormuz.json), its change log

Other subjects with a maintained record

1,251 subjects keep a maintained record (79 events, 1,172 entities). 1,207 more are retired and kept as tombstones.

The 12 event records with the most documents, of 77 that have their own page

Real the maintained subject records, joined to the event pages in signal_bureau_snapshot.json

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