officialLanguage

P236
predicate

Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

All labels observed (178)

Label Occurrences
officialLanguage canonical 23,795
hasOfficialLanguage 16,380
languageOfAdministration 2,109

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: officialLanguage
Generated description
Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

Sample triples (46,259)

Subject Object
Pacho Municipality Spanish
Football Association of Slovenia Slovene
Sumida, Tokyo, Japan Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tokyo metropolitan education administration (metropolitan high schools) Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Mandarin Chinese China via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
surface form: People's Republic of China
Mandarin Chinese Republic of China via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
surface form: Republic of China (Taiwan)
Mandarin Chinese Singapore via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Mandarin Chinese United Nations via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
St. Louis District, Louisiana Territory English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Yuhua District Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karlovasi Greek
Gáldar Spanish
Staffordshire Moorlands English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Graaff-Reinet Afrikaans
Graaff-Reinet English
Teramo Italian
Lommel Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santpedor Catalan
Santpedor Spanish
CA Plaine Vallée French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thorold English
Leidschendam-Voorburg Dutch
Tel Aviv-Yafo City Hall Hebrew via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Tel Aviv-Yafo City Hall Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Tel Aviv-Yafo City Hall English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Province No. 1 Nepali
Municipality of Los Vilos Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Congress of the State of Mexico Spanish
Banan District Standard Chinese
Bogoroditsky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Lambermont French via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Lambermont Dutch via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Chancellery of the Prime Minister (Belgium) Dutch
Chancellery of the Prime Minister (Belgium) French
Chancellery of the Prime Minister (Belgium) German
FOD Buitenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking Dutch
SPF Affaires étrangères, Commerce extérieur et Coopération au Développement French
SPF Affaires étrangères, Commerce extérieur et Coopération au Développement Dutch
SPF Affaires étrangères, Commerce extérieur et Coopération au Développement German
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles French
FWB
surface form: French Community of Belgium
French
Government of the French Community French
DG
surface form: German-speaking Community of Belgium
German
Parliament of the German-speaking Community German
Lontzen German
Lontzen French
Amel German
Illkirch-Graffenstaden French
Val-de-Ruz French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kielce Polish