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.

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Basin City Police Department canonical 1

Statements (42)

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

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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.

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Basin City notableLocation Basin City Police Department