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However, most approaches either treat patches independently, ignoring spatial and biological context, or rely on deep graph models prone to oversmoothing and loss of local tissue detail. We present WSI-GT (Pseudo-Label Guided Graph Transformer), a simple yet effective architecture that addresses these challenges and enables accurate WSI-level tissue segmentation. WSI-GT combines a lightweight local graph convolution block for neighborhood feature aggregation with a pseudo-label guided attention mechanism that preserves intra-class variability and mitigates oversmoothing. To cope with sparse annotations, we introduce an area-weighted sampling strategy that balances class representation while maintaining tissue topology. WSI-GT achieves a Macro F1 of 0.95 on PATH-DT-MSU WSS2v2, improving by up to 3 percentage points over patch-based CNNs and by about 2 points over strong graph baselines. It further generalizes well to the Placenta benchmark and standard graph node classification datasets, highlighting both clinical relevance and broader applicability. 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