NAMES · WHO THE NEWS NAMED · 10-15 TO 10-28

Tamil

person Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka. Wikidata

Named in 527 articles by 16 newsrooms, in 262 stories, on 14 of the last 14 days, first on 10-15.

Rank

0.0917

by the company kept · 1 is the top name

Articles

527

1165 mentions

Linked to

735

names in 2+ shared articles

This week

1.2×

against last week

In Congress's circle

33%

of that hub's 30 closest names are also linked here

Bridging

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 Tamil 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.

Name	Kind	Exclusivity	Together
Rajinikanth	gpe	0.787	217
Mohanlal	gpe	0.676	75
Hindi	gpe	0.653	149
Urdu	gpe	0.524	14
Hardware	loc	0.494	14
Karnataka	gpe	0.475	67
Tamil Nadu	person	0.465	88
Chennai	org	0.465	82
Amitabh Bachchan	person	0.433	20
Dhurandhar	gpe	0.426	7
Healthcare	org	0.423	14
Newton	gpe	0.423	3
Andhra Pradesh	org	0.421	33
Dussehra	person	0.412	16
Hague	gpe	0.406	14
North America	loc	0.403	31
Islam	org	0.395	24
Sri Lanka	gpe	0.376	33
Bollywood	org	0.376	33
Kerala	gpe	0.375	30
Nicobar Islands	gpe	0.374	2
Fort	gpe	0.369	2
Sepang	gpe	0.362	8
Madhu	gpe	0.359	2
Ramayana	person	0.357	7
Highway	gpe	0.341	3
Paradise	loc	0.325	2
Parliament	org	0.316	31
Telangana	gpe	0.312	13
India	gpe	0.304	186

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.

Name	Strength	Together
Rajinikanth	2652	217
Hindi	1488	149
Mohanlal	852	75
India	693	186
Tamil Nadu	609	88
Chennai	572	82
Karnataka	491	67
Andhra Pradesh	225	33
North America	201	31
Bollywood	194	33
Sri Lanka	194	33
Kerala	178	30
Islam	157	24
Amitabh Bachchan	150	20
Parliament	146	31

Articles per day

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 Congress: Abhijeet Dipke, Amit Shah, Andhra Pradesh, BJP, Bench, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bill, Bollywood, CBI, CJP, Chennai, Cockroach Janta Party, Connaught Place, Covid, Dussehra, Foreign Ministry, Gen Z, Healthcare, High Court, Islam.

The year 754 articles on 30 days, 2025-09-27 to 2026-10-28 · 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

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Stories that name Tamil 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.