VLDB Test of Time Award

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academic award computer science award database research award

The VLDB Test of Time Award is a prestigious database research honor recognizing papers from the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference that have had significant and lasting impact on the field over many years.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award	2
VLDB Test of Time Award canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3472650 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: VLDB Test of Time Award
Context triple: [ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award, relatedTo, VLDB Test of Time Award]

A. ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award
The ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award is a prestigious database research honor recognizing SIGMOD conference papers whose ideas have had a lasting and significant impact on the field.
B. ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award
The ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award is a prestigious annual honor recognizing the most outstanding research paper presented at the ACM SIGMOD Conference on data management.
C. ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award
The ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award is a prestigious annual honor recognizing the best doctoral thesis in the field of data management and database systems.
D. ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award
The ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award is a prestigious annual honor recognizing individuals who have made outstanding and sustained service contributions to the database systems community.
E. ACM SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
The ACM SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) is a leading annual research conference focused on the theoretical foundations and formal aspects of database systems.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: VLDB Test of Time Award
Target entity description: The VLDB Test of Time Award is a prestigious database research honor recognizing papers from the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference that have had significant and lasting impact on the field over many years.

A. ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award
The ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award is a prestigious database research honor recognizing SIGMOD conference papers whose ideas have had a lasting and significant impact on the field.
B. ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award
The ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award is a prestigious annual honor recognizing the most outstanding research paper presented at the ACM SIGMOD Conference on data management.
C. ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award
The ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award is a prestigious annual honor recognizing the best doctoral thesis in the field of data management and database systems.
D. ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award
The ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award is a prestigious annual honor recognizing individuals who have made outstanding and sustained service contributions to the database systems community.
E. ACM SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
The ACM SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) is a leading annual research conference focused on the theoretical foundations and formal aspects of database systems.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic award ⓘ computer science award ⓘ database research award ⓘ
associatedWith	database research community ⓘ international database conferences ⓘ
awardedFor	influential VLDB conference paper ⓘ significant and lasting impact of a research paper ⓘ
beneficiary	authors of selected VLDB papers ⓘ
comparedTo	ACM PODS Test-of-Time Award ⓘ surface form: PODS Test of Time Award ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award ⓘ surface form: SIGMOD Test of Time Award
country	international ⓘ
discipline	data engineering ⓘ data management ⓘ
domain	NoSQL systems ⓘ big data systems ⓘ data integration ⓘ data mining ⓘ data warehousing ⓘ distributed databases ⓘ information retrieval ⓘ query processing ⓘ relational databases ⓘ transaction processing ⓘ
field	computer science ⓘ database systems ⓘ
focusesOn	research papers rather than individuals ⓘ
hasCriterion	influence on practice ⓘ influence on subsequent systems and standards ⓘ long-term impact on research ⓘ technical quality of the paper ⓘ
hasType	Test of Time Award ⓘ surface form: Test of Time award
impact	high visibility for awarded papers ⓘ recognition of influential database research trends ⓘ
involves	selection committee of database researchers ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
notableAs	prestigious database research honor ⓘ
presentedAt	VLDB Conference ⓘ surface form: VLDB conference
presentedBy	VLDB Endowment ⓘ
recognizes	papers published at VLDB conference ⓘ
relatedTo	VLDB Endowment Awards ⓘ VLDB Conference ⓘ surface form: Very Large Data Bases conference
selectionProcess	committee deliberation ⓘ evaluation of citation impact ⓘ evaluation of technical contributions ⓘ
timeHorizon	long-term impact rather than short-term novelty ⓘ many years after original publication ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award → relatedTo → VLDB Test of Time Award ⓘ

Rakesh Agrawal → awardReceived → VLDB Test of Time Award ⓘ

this entity surface form: VLDB 10-Year Best Paper Award

Raghu Ramakrishnan → hasAward → VLDB Test of Time Award ⓘ