T206 Honus Wagner baseball card

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baseball card collectible rare trading card sports trading card

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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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
T206 Honus Wagner baseball card canonical	3
T206 Honus Wagner	1
T206 baseball card set	1

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.

NED1 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]

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.
B. Memorabilia
Memorabilia is a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon that presents recollections of Socrates’ conversations to defend his character and philosophy.
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.
D. The Babe
The Babe is a 1992 biographical sports film in which John Goodman portrays legendary baseball player Babe Ruth.
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.

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.
B. Memorabilia
Memorabilia is a Socratic dialogue by Xenophon that presents recollections of Socrates’ conversations to defend his character and philosophy.
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.
D. The Babe
The Babe is a 1992 biographical sports film in which John Goodman portrays legendary baseball player Babe Ruth.
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 ⓘ collectible ⓘ rare trading card ⓘ sports trading card ⓘ
associatedWith	tobacco advertising controversy ⓘ
cardBackBrand	Piedmont ⓘ Sweet Caporal ⓘ
cardBackType	tobacco advertisement ⓘ
cardBorderColor	white ⓘ
cardFrontColorScheme	color lithograph ⓘ
collectingCategory	pre-war tobacco cards ⓘ vintage baseball cards ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
culturalStatus	Holy Grail of sports cards ⓘ
depicts	Honus Wagner ⓘ
distributedWith	cigarettes ⓘ
distributionMethod	tobacco product premium ⓘ
era	pre-war baseball cards ⓘ
estimatedKnownCopies	fewer than 60 ⓘ
featuredIn	numerous sports memorabilia auctions ⓘ
featuresPlayer	Honus Wagner ⓘ
firstMajorRecordPriceEra	1980s ⓘ
frequentlyGradedBy	PSA ⓘ SGC ⓘ
hasConditionSpectrum	from poor to near mint ⓘ
hasName	T206 Honus Wagner ⓘ linked to: T206 Honus Wagner baseball card
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 ⓘ
notableFor	extreme rarity ⓘ high auction prices ⓘ iconic status among collectors ⓘ
partOfSet	T206 baseball card set ⓘ linked to: T206 Honus Wagner baseball card
playerPositionDepicted	shortstop ⓘ
playerTeamDepicted	Pittsburgh Pirates ⓘ
producedBy	American Tobacco Company ⓘ
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 ⓘ Ken Kendrick ⓘ Wayne Gretzky ⓘ
subjectOf	books about sports collectibles ⓘ documentaries on sports memorabilia ⓘ

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Referenced by (5)

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

Honus Wagner → featuredOn → T206 Honus Wagner baseball card ⓘ

subject linked to: Wagner

Johannes Peter Wagner → notableWork → T206 Honus Wagner baseball card ⓘ

John Honus Wagner → isSubjectOf → T206 Honus Wagner baseball card ⓘ

subject linked to: John

T206 Honus Wagner baseball card → hasName → T206 Honus Wagner ⓘ

linked to: T206 Honus Wagner baseball card

T206 Honus Wagner baseball card → partOfSet → T206 baseball card set ⓘ