ARGUS/OVERWATCH
NAMES · WHO THE NEWS NAMED · 10-15 TO 10-28

Background

person Relatively distant and unimportant element in art. Wikidata

Named in 597 articles by 13 newsrooms, in 394 stories, on 14 of the last 14 days, first on 10-15.

Rank
0.0948
by the company kept · 1 is the top name
Articles
597
731 mentions
Linked to
759
names in 2+ shared articles
This week
1.16×
against last week
In Volodymyr Zelen…'s circle
73%
of that hub's 30 closest names are also linked here
Bridging
0
between groups · 1 is the top bridge

Most exclusively tied top 30 · ties that pass the test on the right, most exclusive first

The names that appear with Background in a large share of their own coverage: this name's own company. Exclusivity runs from 0, two names that meet no more than chance would have them, to 1, two names that only ever appear together. A name that is in everything, a president, is exclusive to no one, so the big names fall away here and the names that belong to this one stay. Only ties that pass the strength test count, so a pair seen twice is not a tie. Places are context and have no page.

NameKindExclusivityTogether
Saharaloc0.5714
Mendozagpe0.56814
Orchestragpe0.56614
Opening Weekendevent0.56114
Casablancagpe0.55914
Achillesgpe0.49114
John Dramani Mahamaperson0.47422
Court of Appealorg0.46526
Baltic Sealoc0.46314
Flávioperson0.45942
Runoffgpe0.45814
NDCorg0.44216
IGPorg0.43914
Jared Kushnerperson0.4349
Namibiagpe0.42814
Lithuaniagpe0.42318
Estoniagpe0.42113
South-Southloc0.4196
Green Lineloc0.4184
SIMorg0.41311
Soviet Uniongpe0.39412
Steve Witkoffperson0.38856
Angolagpe0.3836
Aliagpe0.3823
Ankaragpe0.37914
Pecherskyigpe0.3754
Accragpe0.37218
Zirconloc0.3674
G20org0.36414
Zambiagpe0.3596

Most strongly tied the ties chance explains least

How sure the record is that two names appear together for a reason. Strength is a standard statistical test (log-likelihood): above 10.8, chance would produce the pairing less than once in a thousand times. It grows with the number of articles, so the biggest names come first here; the list on the left is where this name's own company shows.

NameStrengthTogether
Ukraine1108296
Volodymyr Zelensky847195
Russia751232
Vladimir Putin546139
United States503273
Donald Trump359204
Jared Kushner32849
Steve Witkoff32356
Flávio31042
Brazil23272
Marco Rubio23151
Court of Appeal20726
Black Sea20242
John Dramani Mahama18322
Kyiv18150

Articles per day

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The hubs' circles share of each hub's 30 closest names that are also linked to this one

The eight most-named figures each have an inner circle: the thirty names most tied to them. This is how much of each circle this name is also tied to. A count of shared company in the coverage, nothing more.

Shared with Volodymyr Zelensky: Cabinet, Defence, Department of Justice, Department of State, Donald Trump, European Commission, European Parliament, European Union, Financial Times, Foreign Ministry, Friedrich Merz, G20, House of Representatives, International Criminal Court, International Monetary Fund, Jared Kushner, Joe Biden, Kremlin, Kyiv, Kyiv Independent.

The year 892 articles on 49 days, 2025-09-30 to 2026-10-27 · weekly bars · 14 months on record

Left is a year ago, right is this week. Older days come from headlines only, so their counts run lower than live days.

Named together, month by month · by surprise, among that month's articles · names with a page

Stories that name Background newest edition first · 40 shown

Names are found by a language model trained to spot them, joined to one spelling per person, and counted per article. The relations are the model's reading of the sources. Everything else is a count of who was written about together; it says nothing about why.