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wild card

in sports, a tournament or playoff berth awarded to a party which has not qualified through normal play
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wild card

Summary

wild card is a sports terminology[1]. It draws 300 Wikipedia views per month (sports_terminology category, ranking #17 of 74).[2]

Key Facts

  • wild card's instance of is recorded as sports terminology[3].
  • wild card's sport is recorded as baseball[4].
  • wild card's sport is recorded as handball[5].
  • wild card's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09jyqg[6].
  • wild card's facet of is recorded as sports competition[7].
  • wild card's facet of is recorded as hackathon[8].
  • wild card's facet of is recorded as qualification event[9].
  • wild card's facet of is recorded as tournament[10].
  • wild card's facet of is recorded as bye[11].

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Designation and Status

wild card's instance of is recorded as sports terminology[3].

Why It Matters

wild card draws 300 Wikipedia views per month (sports_terminology category, ranking #17 of 74).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . dresden.de. Retrieved . dresden.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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