T206 Honus Wagner baseball card
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The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most valuable sports cards in existence, famed among collectors as the "Holy Grail" of baseball card collecting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| T206 Honus Wagner baseball card canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4778500 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: T206 Honus Wagner baseball card Context triple: [Honus Wagner, featuredOn, T206 Honus Wagner baseball card]
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Rawlings
Rawlings is a prominent American sporting goods company best known for manufacturing baseball equipment, including the official baseballs used in Major League Baseball.
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Memorabilia
Memorabilia is a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon that presents recollections of Socrates’ conversations to defend his character and philosophy.
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C.
Honus Wagner
Honus Wagner was a legendary early 20th-century Major League Baseball shortstop, primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history.
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D.
The Babe
The Babe is a 1992 biographical sports film in which John Goodman portrays legendary baseball player Babe Ruth.
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E.
Panini
Panini is an ancient Indian grammarian renowned for composing the Ashtadhyayi, a foundational and highly systematic treatise on Sanskrit grammar.
- 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: T206 Honus Wagner baseball card Target entity description: The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most valuable sports cards in existence, famed among collectors as the "Holy Grail" of baseball card collecting.
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A.
Rawlings
Rawlings is a prominent American sporting goods company best known for manufacturing baseball equipment, including the official baseballs used in Major League Baseball.
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B.
Memorabilia
Memorabilia is a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon that presents recollections of Socrates’ conversations to defend his character and philosophy.
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C.
Honus Wagner
Honus Wagner was a legendary early 20th-century Major League Baseball shortstop, primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history.
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D.
The Babe
The Babe is a 1992 biographical sports film in which John Goodman portrays legendary baseball player Babe Ruth.
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E.
Panini
Panini is an ancient Indian grammarian renowned for composing the Ashtadhyayi, a foundational and highly systematic treatise on Sanskrit grammar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baseball card
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collectible ⓘ rare trading card ⓘ sports trading card ⓘ |
| associatedWith | tobacco advertising controversy ⓘ |
| cardBackBrand |
Piedmont
NERFINISHED
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Sweet Caporal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cardBackType | tobacco advertisement ⓘ |
| cardBorderColor | white ⓘ |
| cardFrontColorScheme | color lithograph ⓘ |
| collectingCategory |
pre-war tobacco cards
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vintage baseball cards ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalStatus | Holy Grail of sports cards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts | Honus Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedWith | cigarettes ⓘ |
| distributionMethod | tobacco product premium ⓘ |
| era | pre-war baseball cards ⓘ |
| estimatedKnownCopies | fewer than 60 ⓘ |
| featuredIn | numerous sports memorabilia auctions ⓘ |
| featuresPlayer | Honus Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstMajorRecordPriceEra | 1980s ⓘ |
| frequentlyGradedBy |
PSA
NERFINISHED
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SGC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConditionSpectrum | from poor to near mint ⓘ |
| hasName | T206 Honus Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Holy Grail of baseball cards ⓘ |
| influenced | growth of sports card investment market ⓘ |
| languageOfText | English ⓘ |
| marketSegment | high-end sports memorabilia ⓘ |
| material | cardboard ⓘ |
| mostFamousExampleNickname | Gretzky-McNall Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extreme rarity
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high auction prices ⓘ iconic status among collectors ⓘ |
| partOfSet | T206 baseball card set NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playerPositionDepicted | shortstop ⓘ |
| playerTeamDepicted | Pittsburgh Pirates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producedBy | American Tobacco Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionEndYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| productionStartYear | 1909 ⓘ |
| rarityReason | withdrawn from production early ⓘ |
| recordAuctionPrice | over 6 million US dollars ⓘ |
| recordAuctionPriceContext | one of the most expensive sports cards ever sold ⓘ |
| recordAuctionPriceCurrency | USD ⓘ |
| setName | T206 ⓘ |
| setNickname | White Border set ⓘ |
| significantOwner |
Bruce McNall
NERFINISHED
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Ken Kendrick NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Gretzky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
books about sports collectibles
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documentaries on sports memorabilia ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: T206 Honus Wagner baseball card Description of subject: The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most valuable sports cards in existence, famed among collectors as the "Holy Grail" of baseball card collecting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Honus Wagner