Entity

Mideast

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 4 coverage verticals, including Turkey, World Wires and India South Asia.

As of 24 Oct 2026Last evidence 23 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • European, Mideast foreign ministers push peace and diplomacy at Istanbul talks

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • India's West Asia oil imports return to pre-war levels in September

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 2 events and claims involving Mideast

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 4 mentions on 24 Oct 2026, against 6 on 3 Oct 2026 (-33%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 13 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 23 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

178 documents · 41 publishers · 26% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 23 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.264: about 74% 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 Mideast

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.

IranMiddle EastOilHormuzSaudi ArabiaTrumpYemenIsraelRed Sea
  • Iran · 110 shared documents
  • Middle East · 100 shared documents
  • Oil · 94 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 69 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 68 shared documents
  • Trump · 66 shared documents
  • Yemen · 63 shared documents
  • Israel · 53 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 43 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Red Sea · 37 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 4 mentions on 24 Oct 2026 with 6 on 3 Oct 2026 (-33%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions -43% from 9 Sept 2026 to 24 Oct 2026, between 3 and 15 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Mideast, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/968960a75135d2f1e8ca6915 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name mideast.

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

Events involving Mideast

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.

  • European, Mideast foreign ministers push peace and diplomacy at Istanbul talks

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • India's West Asia oil imports return to pre-war levels in September

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Mideast

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Mideast

Entity.

Evidence
178 documents · 41 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 23 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
24 Oct 2026
12 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (2)

  • 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

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Mideast, 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 13 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 24 Oct 2026.