You have exploring, puzzles and inventory in Resident Evil too, and the same with Metal Gear Solid. Just calling it an adventure is simplifying a bit too much.
Alone in the Dark was a survival horror from the word go. But like every other new genre that's invented, they don't have a "correct" term for it at first. The term gets implemented after a while when there are more games that fits the description. It's not like they thought "let's make a surival horror game", because you can't have a name for a genre that has yet to be invented. I don't think I've ever heard of a genre term that was invented before the actual game/movie/etc.
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