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
Bacoli Italian
Colaba Marathi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Marathi
Santa Barbara
surface form: Santa Barbara, Iloilo
Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santa Barbara
surface form: Santa Barbara, Iloilo
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
northeastern France
surface form: Northeastern France
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hanover Region German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Paternion German
Bladensburg Police Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Capital Department (La Rioja) Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
General Belgrano Department (La Rioja) Spanish
General Lamadrid Department Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
General Felipe Varela Department Spanish
Rosario Vera Peñaloza Department Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cagayan Filipino
Cagayan English
Nueva Vizcaya Filipino
Nueva Vizcaya English
Quirino Tagalog via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Filipino
Quirino English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Twann German
Mureș County Romanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alba County Romanian
Sunny Side, Georgia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
First Empire of Haiti French
Bannu Municipal Committee Urdu language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
Bannu Municipal Committee Pashto language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Pashto
Zubtsovsky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pueblo Libre District Spanish
Arraiján District Spanish
Markopoulo Mesogeas Greek
Ezinihitte Mbaise English
surface form: English language
Nwangele English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kirovsky District, Leningrad Oblast Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
International Baseball Federation English
International Baseball Federation Spanish
International Baseball Federation French
WBSC Baseball5 World Cup English
WBSC Baseball5 World Cup Spanish
Xagħra Maltese
Xagħra English
Għarb Maltese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Għarb English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nadur Maltese
Nadur English
Qala Maltese
Qala English
Sannat Maltese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sannat English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Munxar Maltese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Munxar English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"