Peter McCallister – John Heard
E433190
Peter McCallister, portrayed by John Heard, is the well-meaning but often frazzled father whose large family accidentally leaves young Kevin behind in the classic holiday film "Home Alone."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter McCallister – John Heard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356141 — 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 – John Heard Context triple: [Home Alone (1990 film), characterPortrayedBy, Peter McCallister – John Heard]
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A.
Jack McHale
Jack McHale is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake referenced in records of notable bearers of the surname McHale.
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B.
Stephen Heard
Stephen Heard was an American Revolutionary War officer and politician who served as governor of Georgia in the late 18th century.
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C.
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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D.
Michele Hollister
Michele Hollister is a film editor known for her work on the 1999 drama film "Sunshine."
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E.
Peter M. Nicholas
Peter M. Nicholas was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Boston Scientific and a major benefactor of environmental education and research.
- 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 – John Heard Target entity description: Peter McCallister, portrayed by John Heard, is the well-meaning but often frazzled father whose large family accidentally leaves young Kevin behind in the classic holiday film "Home Alone."
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A.
Jack McHale
Jack McHale is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake referenced in records of notable bearers of the surname McHale.
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B.
Stephen Heard
Stephen Heard was an American Revolutionary War officer and politician who served as governor of Georgia in the late 18th century.
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C.
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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D.
Michele Hollister
Michele Hollister is a film editor known for her work on the 1999 drama film "Sunshine."
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E.
Peter M. Nicholas
Peter M. Nicholas was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Boston Scientific and a major benefactor of environmental education and research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Home Alone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | Christmas film ⓘ |
| characterRole | father of Kevin McCallister ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
often frazzled
ⓘ
well-meaning ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | John Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Home Alone franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDebut | Home Alone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmSeries | Home Alone series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | family comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Buzz McCallister
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fuller McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Linnie McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Megan McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Brooke McCallister
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Geoffrey McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Heather McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Mitch Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Rod McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Sondra McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Steffan McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracy McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Kate McCallister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| householdSize | large family ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableEvent | accidentally leaves Kevin at home during Christmas trip to Paris ⓘ |
| notableScene |
realizes on the plane that Kevin is missing
ⓘ
searches for Kevin with Kate and police ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Heard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibility | organizing family holiday travel ⓘ |
| setIn |
Chicago, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ Paris, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 – John Heard Description of subject: Peter McCallister, portrayed by John Heard, is the well-meaning but often frazzled father whose large family accidentally leaves young Kevin behind in the classic holiday film "Home Alone."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.