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
DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm fellowship English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Düren German
Odessa, Russian Empire Russian via predicate surface "hadOfficialLanguage"
Hoher Orden vom Schwarzen Adler German
Wageningen Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Joaquín Spanish
San Fernando de Henares Spanish
Shimen District Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
Hohne German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park Shona via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park various South African languages via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wollerau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prignitz district German
Île de Saint-Pierre French
Agoncillo, Batangas Filipino NERFINISHED
Agoncillo, Batangas English
Eagle, Michigan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Webb, Iowa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central Bicutan Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central Bicutan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sanikiluaq English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sanikiluaq French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Laveno-Mombello Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
CABEI Spanish
CABEI English
City of Forks English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Sharpsburg English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Campi Bisenzio Italian
International World Games Association English
International World Games Association French
SEGIB Spanish
SEGIB Portuguese
UCCI Spanish
UCCI Portuguese
NMC
surface form: Nagpur Municipal Corporation
Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
NMC
surface form: Nagpur Municipal Corporation
English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Shahpur
surface form: Shahpur, Bhojpur
Hindi
Arrah subdivision Hindi
Jagdishpur subdivision Hindi
Patriarch of Lisbon Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Najafgarh Hindi
Youssoufia Province Arabic
Youssoufia Province Amazigh NERFINISHED
Youssoufia Arabic
Youssoufia Amazigh NERFINISHED
Kufranjah Arabic
Navidad Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Estrella Spanish