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
Ternate, Cavite Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ternate, Cavite English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Intendancy of Guanajuato Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alcaldía mayor of San Miguel el Grande Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Office of the Substitute for General Affairs Italian
Office of the Substitute for General Affairs Latin
Chapter of Saint Peter’s Basilica Latin via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Central Bank of Yemen Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Rajkot district Gujarati NERFINISHED
Rajkot district Hindi
Palam, Delhi Hindi
municipality of Xiromero
surface form: Xiromero
Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
West Riffa Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Dar Chaabane Arabic
Beni Khiar Arabic
Soliman Arabic
Menzel Horr Arabic
Orbetello Italian NERFINISHED
Shediac French
Shediac English
Santo Stefano Belbo Italian
Summer Capital of the Philippines Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Summer Capital of the Philippines English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Boac Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Boac English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mamburao Filipino NERFINISHED
Mamburao English
Samario
surface form: Santa Marta
Spanish
Thiruvadanai Tamil NERFINISHED
Campania region
surface form: Campania
Italian NERFINISHED
IAU Divisions English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Głogów Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Kotla Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Pęcław Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Żukowice Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lubin County Polish
Bohemian Crown Latin
Bohemian Crown Czech
Bohemian Crown German
Gmina Gubin Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bilaspur district Hindi
Bilaspur district Pahari
Gulshanabad Telugu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bardolino Italian NERFINISHED
Rawannawi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rawannawi Gilbertese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kettleshulme English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Blaricum Dutch
Menzel Bouzelfa Arabic