Frank Booth in Blue Velvet

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antagonist fictional character film character villain

Frank Booth in Blue Velvet is a sadistic, psychotic criminal and one of cinema’s most disturbing villains, known for his volatile behavior, sexual violence, and menacing presence in David Lynch’s 1986 film.

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Label	Occurrences
Frank Booth in Blue Velvet canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	antagonist ⓘ fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ villain ⓘ
abuses	Dorothy Vallens ⓘ
appearsIn	Blue Velvet ⓘ
associatedWith	Ben ⓘ Dorothy Vallens ⓘ Jeffrey Beaumont ⓘ Raymond ⓘ
characterTrait	controlling ⓘ psychotic ⓘ sadistic ⓘ violent ⓘ volatile ⓘ
controls	criminal underworld in Lumberton ⓘ
costumeElement	black leather jacket ⓘ
countryOfOriginWork	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
createdBy	David Lynch ⓘ
deathSceneLocation	Dorothy Vallens’s apartment ⓘ
filmDirector	David Lynch ⓘ
filmReleaseYear	1986 ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genreContext	neo-noir ⓘ psychological thriller ⓘ
hairColor	dark brown ⓘ
inUniverseRole	local crime boss ⓘ
killedBy	Jeffrey Beaumont ⓘ
languageOfWork	English ⓘ
medium	feature film ⓘ
nationalityInFiction	American ⓘ
notableFor	disturbing behavior ⓘ menacing presence ⓘ sexual violence ⓘ
notableScene	assaulting Jeffrey Beaumont ⓘ kidnapping and abusing Dorothy Vallens ⓘ sing-along scene with Ben ⓘ
occupation	criminal ⓘ
partOf	Blue Velvet ⓘ surface form: Blue Velvet (1986 film)
portrayedBy	Dennis Hopper ⓘ
prop	gas mask ⓘ handgun ⓘ
setting	Lumberton, North Carolina ⓘ surface form: Lumberton, North Carolina (fictional)
speaksCatchphrase	“Baby wants to fuck” ⓘ “Don’t you fucking look at me” ⓘ “Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!” ⓘ
threatens	Dorothy Vallens’s family ⓘ Jeffrey Beaumont ⓘ
usesDrug	inhalant gas ⓘ

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: Frank Booth in Blue Velvet
Description of subject: Frank Booth in Blue Velvet is a sadistic, psychotic criminal and one of cinema’s most disturbing villains, known for his volatile behavior, sexual violence, and menacing presence in David Lynch’s 1986 film.

Referenced by (1)

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

Dennis Hopper → portrayedCharacter → Frank Booth in Blue Velvet ⓘ