The GDELT Project

Kalev Leetaru (creator)

Type: corpus
Venue: GDELT Project (supported by Google Jigsaw)
Year: 2026
Source: web
Access: free
Language: 100+ languages (with realtime translation of 65 languages to English)
Added: 2026-07-17T20:18:03.744426+00:00
Verified: 2026-07-17T20:18:03.744426+00:00

Summary

The GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone) Project is a realtime open data platform that monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every country in over 100 languages, identifying people, locations, organizations, themes, emotions, and events driving global society. It maintains three primary data streams—the Event Database (300+ event categories dating back to 1979), the Global Knowledge Graph (entities, themes, emotions), and the Visual GKG (news imagery)—all updating every 15 minutes, totaling trillions of datapoints.

Keywords

news events global realtime conflict social-science nlp geopolitics open-data translation

Topics

News / Global Events / Social Science

Research notes

Supported by Google Jigsaw. Collaborates with Internet Archive for news preservation. GDELT Translingual is one of the largest realtime streaming news machine translation deployments. Historical expansion aims to reach back to 1800.