Home Alone (1990 film)

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American film Christmas film family comedy film film

Home Alone (1990 film) is a popular family comedy in which a young boy must defend his house from burglars after being accidentally left behind during his family's Christmas vacation.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Home Alone	27
Home Alone (1990 film) canonical	2
Home Alone film score	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T821016 — 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: Home Alone (1990 film)
Context triple: [20th Century Fox, notableWork, Home Alone (1990 film)]

A. Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American comedy-drama film about a chaotic family Thanksgiving gathering, directed by Jodie Foster.
B. Scrooged
Scrooged is a 1988 dark comedy film that modernizes Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," starring Bill Murray as a cynical television executive who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
C. You’ve Got Mail
"You’ve Got Mail" is a 1998 romantic comedy film about two business rivals who unknowingly fall in love with each other over email, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
D. Coming Home
Coming Home is a 1978 American drama film about Vietnam War veterans’ struggles to readjust to civilian life, acclaimed for its powerful performances and anti-war themes.
E. Coming Home
"Coming Home" is a song featured on the album "Once Again," likely recognized as one of its individual tracks.
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: Home Alone (1990 film)
Target entity description: Home Alone (1990 film) is a popular family comedy in which a young boy must defend his house from burglars after being accidentally left behind during his family's Christmas vacation.

A. Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American comedy-drama film about a chaotic family Thanksgiving gathering, directed by Jodie Foster.
B. Scrooged
Scrooged is a 1988 dark comedy film that modernizes Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," starring Bill Murray as a cynical television executive who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
C. You’ve Got Mail
"You’ve Got Mail" is a 1998 romantic comedy film about two business rivals who unknowingly fall in love with each other over email, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
D. Coming Home
"Coming Home" is a song featured on the album "Once Again," likely recognized as one of its individual tracks.
E. Coming Home
Coming Home is a 1978 American drama film about Vietnam War veterans’ struggles to readjust to civilian life, acclaimed for its powerful performances and anti-war themes.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film ⓘ Christmas film ⓘ family comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ
award	Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score ⓘ Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song "Somewhere in My Memory" ⓘ Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Macaulay Culkin ⓘ Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy ⓘ
basedInLocation	Chicago ⓘ linked to: City of Chicago
boxOfficeGrossWorldwide	approximately $476,700,000 ⓘ
budget	approximately $18,000,000 ⓘ
castMember	Catherine O'Hara ⓘ linked to: Catherine O’Hara Daniel Stern ⓘ Devin Ratray ⓘ Joe Pesci ⓘ John Candy ⓘ John Heard ⓘ Kieran Culkin ⓘ Macaulay Culkin ⓘ Roberts Blossom ⓘ
characterPortrayedBy	Harry Lyme – Joe Pesci ⓘ Kate McCallister – Catherine O'Hara ⓘ linked to: Catherine O’Hara Kevin McCallister – Macaulay Culkin ⓘ linked to: Macaulay Culkin Marv Murchins – Daniel Stern ⓘ Peter McCallister – John Heard ⓘ
characterRole	Harry and Marv are burglars attempting to rob the McCallister house ⓘ Kevin McCallister is an 8-year-old boy accidentally left home alone ⓘ linked to: Macaulay Culkin
cinematographyBy	Julio Macat ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
director	Chris Columbus ⓘ
distributor	20th Century Fox ⓘ
editedBy	Raja Gosnell ⓘ
filmingLocation	Chicago ⓘ linked to: City of Chicago Illinois ⓘ
followedBy	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ⓘ
genre	Christmas film ⓘ comedy film ⓘ family film ⓘ
mainCharacter	Harry Lyme ⓘ Kate McCallister ⓘ Kevin McCallister ⓘ Marv Murchins ⓘ Peter McCallister ⓘ
mpaaRating	PG ⓘ
musicBy	John Williams ⓘ
narrativeLocation	suburban Chicago ⓘ
notableFor	becoming one of the highest-grossing comedies of all time ⓘ slapstick violence and elaborate booby traps ⓘ
notableSong	Somewhere in My Memory ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
partOfSeries	Home Alone film series ⓘ
plotSummary	An 8-year-old boy is accidentally left behind when his family goes on a Christmas vacation and must defend his home from burglars using improvised traps ⓘ
producer	Hunt Lowry ⓘ John Hughes ⓘ
productionCompany	Hughes Entertainment ⓘ
ratingSystem	MPAA ⓘ linked to: MPAA film rating system
releaseDate	1990-11-10 ⓘ 1990-11-16 ⓘ
releaseSeason	holiday season 1990 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	103 ⓘ
screenwriter	John Hughes ⓘ
setInPeriod	Christmas season ⓘ
title	Home Alone ⓘ linked to: Home Alone (1990 film)
writer	John Hughes ⓘ

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Referenced by (30)

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

20th Century Fox → notableWork → Home Alone (1990 film) ⓘ

20th Century Fox → distributed → Home Alone (1990 film) ⓘ

John Williams → notableWork → Home Alone film score ⓘ