Bad Boys

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American film action film buddy cop film film

Bad Boys is a 1995 action-comedy film starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as Miami detectives, known for its high-octane action, buddy-cop humor, and launch of a successful film franchise.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Bad Boys canonical	18
Bad Boys film series	7
Bad Boys franchise	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film ⓘ action film ⓘ buddy cop film ⓘ film ⓘ
basedOn	story by George Gallo ⓘ
boxOfficeRevenue	approximately $141,000,000 ⓘ
castMember	Joe Pantoliano ⓘ Martin Lawrence ⓘ Tchéky Karyo ⓘ Theresa Randle ⓘ Téa Leoni ⓘ Will Smith ⓘ
characterPortrayedBy	Marcus Burnett – Martin Lawrence ⓘ Will Smith ⓘ surface form: Mike Lowrey – Will Smith
cinematographyBy	Howard Atherton ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
director	Michael Bay ⓘ
distributedBy	Columbia Pictures ⓘ
editedBy	Christian Wagner ⓘ
filmingLocation	South Florida ⓘ
followedBy	Bad Boys II ⓘ
genre	action comedy film ⓘ buddy cop film ⓘ
hasSequel	Bad Boys II ⓘ Bad Boys for Life ⓘ Bad Boys: Ride or Die ⓘ
mainCharacter	Marcus Burnett ⓘ Mike Lowrey ⓘ
MPAARating	R ⓘ
musicBy	Mark Mancina ⓘ
narrativeFocus	Miami narcotics detectives protecting a murder witness ⓘ
notableFor	buddy-cop humor ⓘ high-octane action sequences ⓘ launching Will Smith as an action film star ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
partOfSeries	Bad Boys self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Bad Boys film series
producer	Don Simpson ⓘ Jerry Bruckheimer ⓘ
productionBudget	approximately $19,000,000 ⓘ
productionCompany	Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films ⓘ
publicationDate	1995-04-07 ⓘ
releaseYear	1995 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	118 ⓘ
screenwriter	Doug Richardson ⓘ George Gallo ⓘ Jim Mulholland NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Barrie ⓘ
setInLocation	Miami ⓘ
starring	Martin Lawrence ⓘ Will Smith ⓘ
title	Bad Boys ⓘ

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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: Bad Boys
Description of subject: Bad Boys is a 1995 action-comedy film starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as Miami detectives, known for its high-octane action, buddy-cop humor, and launch of a successful film franchise.

Referenced by (26)

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

Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films → produced → Bad Boys ⓘ

Bad Boys for Life → partOfSeries → Bad Boys ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bad Boys film series

Bad Boys for Life → franchise → Bad Boys ⓘ

Michael Bay → notableWork → Bad Boys ⓘ

Michael Bay → directed → Bad Boys ⓘ

Jerry Bruckheimer → notableWork → Bad Boys ⓘ

Will Smith → notableWork → Bad Boys ⓘ

Kim Coates → notableWork → Bad Boys ⓘ

Kim Coates → appearedIn → Bad Boys ⓘ

Don Simpson → notableWork → Bad Boys ⓘ

Don Simpson → workedOn → Bad Boys ⓘ

Cops → openingTheme → Bad Boys ⓘ

Joe Pantoliano → notableWork → Bad Boys ⓘ

Téa Leoni → notableWork → Bad Boys ⓘ

Bad Boys II → follows → Bad Boys ⓘ

Bad Boys II → partOfSeries → Bad Boys ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bad Boys film series

L.A.'s Finest → basedOn → Bad Boys ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bad Boys film series

L.A.'s Finest → spinOffFrom → Bad Boys ⓘ

L.A.'s Finest → partOfFranchise → Bad Boys ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bad Boys franchise

Shaun Toub → notableWork → Bad Boys ⓘ

Bad Boys → partOfSeries → Bad Boys self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bad Boys film series

Chris Bremner → associatedWith → Bad Boys ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bad Boys film series

2.0 Entertainment → series → Bad Boys ⓘ

subject surface form: Bad Boys for Life

this entity surface form: Bad Boys film series

Mike Lowrey → appearsIn → Bad Boys ⓘ

Mike Lowrey → franchise → Bad Boys ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bad Boys film series

Marcus Burnett → appearsIn → Bad Boys ⓘ