I’ll Be Home for Christmas
E222511
"I’ll Be Home for Christmas" is a classic American Christmas song, first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943, that expresses a soldier’s longing to be home with loved ones for the holidays.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I'll Be Home for Christmas | 3 |
| I’ll Be Home for Christmas canonical | 2 |
| "I'll be home for Christmas, you can count on me" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1958294 — 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: I’ll Be Home for Christmas Context triple: [One Wish: The Holiday Album, hasTrack, I’ll Be Home for Christmas]
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A.
Please Come Home for Christmas
"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a classic holiday blues ballad best known from Charles Brown’s 1960 recording and later popularized by artists like the Eagles and Bon Jovi.
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B.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
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C.
One Christmas
One Christmas is a 1994 television film adaptation of a Truman Capote short story, starring Henry Winkler and Katharine Hepburn in a Depression-era coming-of-age tale.
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D.
Christmas Is All Around
"Christmas Is All Around" is a humorous, Christmas-themed parody of The Troggs' song "Love Is All Around," performed by Bill Nighy's character in the film Love Actually.
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E.
Waiting for Christmas
"Waiting for Christmas" is a holiday-themed R&B song by John Legend from his festive album "A Legendary Christmas."
- 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: I’ll Be Home for Christmas Target entity description: "I’ll Be Home for Christmas" is a classic American Christmas song, first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943, that expresses a soldier’s longing to be home with loved ones for the holidays.
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A.
Please Come Home for Christmas
"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a classic holiday blues ballad best known from Charles Brown’s 1960 recording and later popularized by artists like the Eagles and Bon Jovi.
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B.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a classic Christmas standard, originally introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 film *Meet Me in St. Louis* and since covered by countless artists.
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C.
One Christmas
One Christmas is a 1994 television film adaptation of a Truman Capote short story, starring Henry Winkler and Katharine Hepburn in a Depression-era coming-of-age tale.
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D.
Christmas Is All Around
"Christmas Is All Around" is a humorous, Christmas-themed parody of The Troggs' song "Love Is All Around," performed by Bill Nighy's character in the film Love Actually.
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E.
Waiting for Christmas
"Waiting for Christmas" is a holiday-themed R&B song by John Legend from his festive album "A Legendary Christmas."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christmas song
ⓘ
popular music recording ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American soldiers
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | Bing Crosby version became a wartime hit in the United States ⓘ |
| composer | Walter Kent ⓘ |
| copyrightHolder | Gannon and Kent ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalStatus | Christmas standard ⓘ |
| firstRecordedBy | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| firstRecordingDate | 1943 ⓘ |
| genre |
Christmas music
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| hasCoverVersionBy |
Camila Cabello
ⓘ
Elvis Presley ⓘ Frank Sinatra ⓘ Josh Groban ⓘ Kelly Clarkson ⓘ Michael Bublé ⓘ Pentatonix ⓘ Rascal Flatts ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
self-link
ⓘ
surface form:
I'll Be Home for Christmas
|
| hasType | ballad ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general public ⓘ |
| isStandardIn |
American Christmas songbook
ⓘ
holiday music repertoire ⓘ |
| key | major key (commonly G major in Crosby’s version) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Kim Gannon ⓘ |
| mood |
melancholic
ⓘ
nostalgic ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| notableLine |
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
"I'll be home for Christmas, you can count on me"
"If only in my dreams" ⓘ |
| originalPerformer | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| performer | Bing Crosby ⓘ |
| primaryInstrumentation | voice and orchestra ⓘ |
| publisher | Edwin H. Morris & Co. ⓘ |
| recordedFor | Decca Records ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Decca Records ⓘ |
| setting | World War II era ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | being separated from family at Christmas ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| theme |
Christmas homecoming
ⓘ
homesickness ⓘ soldier’s longing for home ⓘ |
| vocalType | male vocal ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 1943 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: I’ll Be Home for Christmas Description of subject: "I’ll Be Home for Christmas" is a classic American Christmas song, first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943, that expresses a soldier’s longing to be home with loved ones for the holidays.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
I'll Be Home for Christmas
subject surface form:
I'll Be Home for Christmas
this entity surface form:
"I'll be home for Christmas, you can count on me"
subject surface form:
I'll Be Home for Christmas
this entity surface form:
I'll Be Home for Christmas
this entity surface form:
I'll Be Home for Christmas