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High-resolution single-cell methods such as MERFISH and Expansion Sequencing (ExSeq) resolve individual cells but typically profile limited gene panels, restricting the direct application of transcriptome-based cell typing strategies developed for single-cell RNA sequencing. Consequently, accurate cell-type identification in spatial single-cell data remains challenging when transcriptomic coverage per cell is sparse. Here, we introduce ModelistsGCN, a semi-supervised multimodal graph convolutional framework that integrates gene expression, spatial proximity, and quantitative cellular morphology for spatial single-cell cell typing. ModelistsGCN uses a small set of high-confidence representative cells, defined by marker-gene enrichment, to guide clustering while preserving flexibility in identifying cell types. 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