ARGUS/OVERWATCH
NAMES · WHO THE NEWS NAMED · 10-19 TO 11-01

Makkah

org

Named in 885 articles by 26 newsrooms, in 321 stories, on 14 of the last 14 days, first on 10-19.

Rank
0.0495
by the company kept · 1 is the top name
Articles
885
1470 mentions
Linked to
429
names in 2+ shared articles
This week
1.78×
against last week
In Houthi's circle
82%
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 Makkah 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
Turkiyegpe0.593173
Kingdom of Saudi Arabiagpe0.56471
Taifgpe0.55853
Jizangpe0.55128
Quotinggpe0.52614
Defence Forcesorg0.52451
Islamic Republic of Pakistangpe0.50312
Yahya Sareeperson0.489102
Jeddahgpe0.48487
Ministry of Foreign Affairsorg0.47755
Rabighgpe0.4515
Pakistangpe0.442352
King Khalid International Airportorg0.433123
Saudi Arabiagpe0.43581
Mokhagpe0.42714
Najrangpe0.42242
Hodeidagpe0.4228
Damascusgpe0.41518
Shehbaz Sharifperson0.41462
Arabian Sealoc0.41314
Houthiorg0.402348
Türkiyegpe0.447
Twelve Bangladeshiperson0.424
Rawalpindigpe0.39622
Houthisperson0.39242
Yemengpe0.388320
Sharjahgpe0.38611
Yanbugpe0.38228
Syriagpe0.37274
Riyadhgpe0.371300

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
Saudi Arabia3116581
Pakistan1968352
Houthi1727348
Yemen1526320
Turkiye1504173
Riyadh1355300
Houthis1186242
Iran950309
King Khalid International Airport744123
Yahya Saree739102
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia64671
Jeddah63487
Taif49453
Defence Forces44051
Ministry of Foreign Affairs41655

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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 Houthi: Abbas Araghchi, Across Taiz, Airbus, Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence, Defence Forces, Defence Ministry, Donald Trump, Federal Government, Foreign Ministry, Hormuz, Houthis, Interior, Ishaq Dar, Islam, King Khalid International Airport, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NATO, National.

The year 1385 articles on 43 days, 2026-02-01 to 2026-11-01 · weekly bars · 15 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 Makkah 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.