I’ll Be Home for Christmas

E222511

Christmas song popular music recording song

"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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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
I'll Be Home for Christmas	7
I’ll Be Home for Christmas canonical	7
"I'll be home for Christmas, you can count on me"	1
I’ll Be Home for Christmas (on some editions)	1
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”	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]

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ⓘ linked to: United States of America
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 ⓘ linked to: 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, you can count on me" ⓘ linked to: I’ll Be Home for Christmas "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

Referenced by (17)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

One Wish: The Holiday Album → hasTrack → I’ll Be Home for Christmas ⓘ

A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas → hasTrack → I’ll Be Home for Christmas ⓘ

Some Lessons Learned → hasTrack → I'll Be Home for Christmas ⓘ