Basin City Police Department
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The Basin City Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in the fictional, crime-ridden city of Basin City featured in Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novels and their film adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Basin City Police Department canonical | 1 |
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional police department ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Sin City (2005 film)
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Sin City (comic series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictsWith |
Old Town prostitutes
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various Basin City criminal factions ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation | United States of America (fictional setting) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Frank Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employs |
Commissioner (Basin City Police Commissioner)
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Jack Rafferty NERFINISHED ⓘ John Hartigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lieutenant Liebowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Sin City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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neo-noir ⓘ |
| governsArea | Old Town (Basin City) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeadquartersLocation | Basin City Police Headquarters (fictional) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemberRank |
commissioner
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detective ⓘ lieutenant ⓘ police officer ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
police corruption
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urban decay ⓘ vigilantism ⓘ |
| inception | early 1990s (first appearance in Sin City comics) ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Basin City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
feature film
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graphic novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | antagonistic institution ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
brutal policing methods
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close ties to organized crime ⓘ widespread corruption ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Jack Rafferty
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John Hartigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Basin City government ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
black-and-white visual style with selective color
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live-action film ⓘ |
| role | primary law enforcement agency in Basin City ⓘ |
| settingOf |
That Yellow Bastard (Sin City story arc)
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The Big Fat Kill (Sin City story arc) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hard Goodbye (Sin City story arc) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Basin City Police Department Description of subject: The Basin City Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency in the fictional, crime-ridden city of Basin City featured in Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novels and their film adaptations.
Referenced by (1)
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