Peter McCallister
E439422
Peter McCallister is the harried father of Kevin McCallister in the "Home Alone" films, known for accidentally leaving his son behind during the family’s chaotic holiday trips.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter McCallister canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356125 — 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: Peter McCallister Context triple: [Home Alone (1990 film), mainCharacter, Peter McCallister]
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Patrick Callaghan
Patrick Callaghan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Callaghan.
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C.
Richard Callaghan
Richard Callaghan is a prominent American figure skating coach best known for guiding Olympic champion Tara Lipinski to international success.
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D.
Wayne McAllister
Wayne McAllister was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect best known for his influential roadside and resort designs that helped define the futuristic, car-oriented style later called Googie architecture.
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E.
Peter Callaghan
Peter Callaghan is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably recorded as a bearer of the surname Callaghan.
- 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: Peter McCallister Target entity description: Peter McCallister is the harried father of Kevin McCallister in the "Home Alone" films, known for accidentally leaving his son behind during the family’s chaotic holiday trips.
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Patrick Callaghan
Patrick Callaghan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Callaghan.
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C.
Richard Callaghan
Richard Callaghan is a prominent American figure skating coach best known for guiding Olympic champion Tara Lipinski to international success.
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D.
Wayne McAllister
Wayne McAllister was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect best known for his influential roadside and resort designs that helped define the futuristic, car-oriented style later called Googie architecture.
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E.
Peter Callaghan
Peter Callaghan is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably recorded as a bearer of the surname Callaghan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Home Alone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
Christmas film
ⓘ
family comedy film ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
family-oriented
ⓘ
harried ⓘ often distracted ⓘ |
| child |
Buzz McCallister
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fuller McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Linnie McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Megan McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | John Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Home Alone franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmSeries | Home Alone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| lastAppearance | Home Alone 2: Lost in New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastAppearanceYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of Kevin McCallister
ⓘ
forgetting his son Kevin at home during a family Christmas trip ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| onScreenMedium | live-action film ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Heard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Frank McCallister
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leslie McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
suburban Chicago house on Lincoln Boulevard ⓘ |
| spouse | Kate McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Peter McCallister Description of subject: Peter McCallister is the harried father of Kevin McCallister in the "Home Alone" films, known for accidentally leaving his son behind during the family’s chaotic holiday trips.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.