Glossary
Global Knowledge Graph
Global Knowledge Graph is GDELT's codified-document table linking people, organizations and themes across worldwide news in 100+ languages, updating every 15 minutes alongside its Events and Mentions tables. Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets documents it directly in GDELT Project 2.0.
What is Global Knowledge Graph?
GDELT's codified-document table linking people, organizations and themes across worldwide news in 100+ languages, updating every 15 minutes alongside its Events and Mentions tables.
A single year of GKG totals roughly 2.5 TB uncompressed.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - GDELT Project 2.0 — "Event Database, Global Knowledge Graph and Visual GKG; one row per codified document (GKG); about 2.5 TB uncompressed per year of GKG".
Why does Global Knowledge Graph matter when choosing a dataset?
A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.
The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the Global Knowledge Graph label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — Event Database, Global Knowledge Graph and Visual GKG; one row per codified document (GKG); about 2.5 TB uncompressed per year of GKG. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and GDELT Project 2.0 lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate Global Knowledge Graph in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open GDELT Project 2.0 and confirm its record — "Event Database, Global Knowledge Graph and Visual GKG; one row per codified document (GKG); about 2.5 TB uncompressed per year of GKG" — against the files you actually receive.
- Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
- Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
- Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.
See the term applied to real records: interactive-home-entertainment data, interactive-media-services data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - attribution requirement - warc corpus
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of Global Knowledge Graph?
GDELT Project 2.0 is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "Event Database, Global Knowledge Graph and Visual GKG; one row per codified document (GKG); about 2.5 TB uncompressed per year of GKG". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "Global Knowledge Graph" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing Global Knowledge Graph
6 datasets carry global knowledge graph in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
Chrome UX Report (CrUX)
largest_contentful_paint · interaction_to_next_paint · cumulative_layout_shift …+3 more
Common Crawl Web Corpus
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