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Strait of Hormuz

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ExampleThe three readings below show how a Watch sorts one set of sources for different viewpoints. Their rows are illustrative; the live readings will be built from the Hormuz reporting ledger shown further down. The market price is real.

Strait of Hormuz

Seen as Maritime operator · acts within days
Example

Traffic is down about a third on the week. The threat level is unchanged. One boarding report is contested.

  • Matters now2

    • Transits fell to 31 on Tuesday, from 44 a week earlier

      Matters now: States a change in traffic through the strait

      Reported by 3 outletsstate-change:transits

    • UKMTO keeps the threat level at Substantial (advisory 100)

      Matters now: Primary maritime authority, no change

      Primary sourceauthority:no-change
  • Worth knowing1

    • Waiting time at Fujairah anchorage up to about 2.5 days

      Worth knowing: Affects the route, not the strait itself

      One report so faradjacent:route
  • Unclear2

    • Tanker stopped near Khor Fakkan

      Unclear: Sources give different answers

      Reuters: boarded by unidentified personnel
      UAE coast guard: routine inspection, released
      Outlets disagreedifferent-answers

    • War-risk premiums “up sharply”

      Unclear: No figure given; the strait is implied, not named

      One report so farsubject-implicit

Market sensor, from the live Hormuz record: on Polymarket, “Will there be between 0 and 5 average daily transits of the Strait of Hormuz on October 31?” was priced at 57.5% when last seen (2026-10-03). Cited as a market price, not our estimate.

Set aside · 3 examples, each with why
  • Trade remarks by Donald Trump on China. Shares a name with Hormuz stories, not the strait
  • Kyiv drone strike coverage. Different region
  • Gold price commentary. No link to shipping in the strait

What the record holds now

The newest claims in the Hormuz reporting ledger that more than one origin carried. The ledger holds 1,598 claims: 22 reported separately by three or more origins, 83 by two, and 1,493 by one so far. Computed 3 Oct 2026.

Agreement between publishers is not verification of the facts; a repeated error passes any count. Open “where from” on any claim to follow it to the original articles.

Reports that give different answers

36 claims in the ledger sit beside another report that says something different. The newest:

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Coming next: mark items more like this or less like this. Your viewpoint gets a new version; sources are never changed. Changes of state supported by a source always stay at least in Worth knowing.

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Strait of Hormuz, as data

GET https://sigb.ai/api/record/hormuz?viewpoint=maritime-operator

{
  "example": true,
  "note": "Illustrative shape of a per-viewpoint Watch reading; the numbers are not real.",
  "watch": "W.hormuz.maritime",
  "observer": "maritime-operator",
  "items": [
    {
      "tier": "key",
      "tierLabel": "Matters now",
      "reasonCode": "state-change:transits",
      "headline": "Transits fell to 31 on Tuesday, from 44 a week earlier",
      "corroboration": {
        "state": "corroborated",
        "publishers": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "tier": "ambiguous",
      "tierLabel": "Unclear",
      "reasonCode": "different-answers",
      "headline": "Tanker stopped near Khor Fakkan",
      "corroboration": {
        "state": "contested",
        "publishers": 2
      }
    }
  ]
}

Example shape of a per-viewpoint reading. It is marked example: true because these readings are not yet published.

GET claims_hormuz.json → kernel[newest corroborated] where-from, folded one level

{
  "claim": "President Donald Trump rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.",
  "status": "corroborated",
  "independentChains": 17,
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "where from",
    "label": "17 separate origins, 20 report threads",
    "relations": [
      {
        "role": "part of",
        "members": [
          "/event/hormuz/",
          "/record/"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines · first seen 26 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 2,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Al Jazeera · first seen 27 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Al Jazeera · first seen 27 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Al-Monitor · first seen 27 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Bloomberg · first seen 27 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Al-Monitor · first seen 27 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 2,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Nairametrics · first seen 27 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Tempo.co english RSS Feed · first seen 27 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "analyticsinsight · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "analyticsinsight · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Just Security · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Decrypt · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Daily Sabah economy · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "BBC News · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Seoul Economic Daily - English Edition · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "gulfnews · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Hindustan Times Business · first seen 28 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "ING Think · first seen 29 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Al Jazeera · first seen 29 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "report",
        "label": "Tekedia · first seen 29 Sept",
        "children": {
          "count": 1,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Real: the newest corroborated claim in the Hormuz reporting ledger, with its where-from tree folded below the first level. Each level names how to unfold the next, and every branch ends at a source link or a stated reason.