Wendell "Bud" White

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Wendell "Bud" White is a tough, morally driven Los Angeles police officer and central character in the crime film and novel "L.A. Confidential."

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Wendell "Bud" White canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
literary character
police officer
adaptationFrom novel to film
appearsIn L.A. Confidential (film) NERFINISHED
L.A. Confidential (novel) NERFINISHED
associatedWith Ed Exley NERFINISHED
Jack Vincennes NERFINISHED
Lynn Bracken NERFINISHED
basedOnWork L.A. Confidential (novel) NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
creator James Ellroy NERFINISHED
employer Los Angeles Police Department NERFINISHED
fictionalCity Los Angeles NERFINISHED
fictionalStatus alive at end of film
fictionalUniverse L.A. Quartet NERFINISHED
filmAppearanceYear 1997
filmPortrayedBy Russell Crowe NERFINISHED
fullName Wendell White NERFINISHED
genre crime fiction
genreOfWork neo-noir
hairColor dark
languageOfWork English
medium cinema
literature
moralAlignment morally driven
motive protect vulnerable women
narrativeRole central character
protagonist
nickname Bud NERFINISHED
notableCharacteristic hatred of domestic abusers
strong sense of justice
notableFor use of physical force against abusers
notableScene interrogation and intimidation of suspects
novelPublicationYear 1990
occupation police officer
personalityTrait protective
tough
violent
policeDepartment LAPD NERFINISHED
policeRank officer
relationship romantic relationship with Lynn Bracken
settingPeriod 1950s
themeInvolvement moral ambiguity
police corruption
violence and redemption
workLocation Los Angeles

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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.

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- 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.
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Subject: Wendell "Bud" White
Description of subject: Wendell "Bud" White is a tough, morally driven Los Angeles police officer and central character in the crime film and novel "L.A. Confidential."

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Bud White fullName Wendell "Bud" White