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
Goito Italian NERFINISHED
International Women of Courage Award English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
NPB regular season Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Western District of Missouri English
North Hwanghae Province Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Velilla de San Antonio Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Martín de la Vega Spanish
Bishop of Breda Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
South West
surface form: South West (London Assembly constituency)
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rungata English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rungata Gilbertese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Eordaea Ancient Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Liebenwalde German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cabanatuan City Filipino NERFINISHED
Cabanatuan City English
Satipo Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rizal province
surface form: Rizal
Filipino NERFINISHED
Rizal province
surface form: Rizal
English
Kanipakam Vinayaka Temple Telugu via predicate surface "stateOfficialLanguage"
Nagpur district Marathi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Rygge municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Horten, Norway
surface form: Horten
Bokmål NERFINISHED
Inlailawatash Indian Reserve No. 4 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seymour Creek Indian Reserve No. 2 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Economy of Ukraine Ukrainian
Maniema Province French
Maniema Province Swahili via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Walikale Territory French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Carpaneto Piacentino Italian
Prairie Band Potawatomi Indian Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Umaria district Hindi
Indore district Hindi
Czech Supercup Czech
Kiryat Gat Hebrew
Nore og Uvdal Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zouping Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Line 37
surface form: Line 37 (Shenzhen Metro)
Chinese via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfOfficialDocuments"
Stark County Board of Commissioners English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stark County Court of Common Pleas English
arrondissement of Morlaix French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
canton of Saint-Pol-de-Léon French
Île de Batz French
Hamburg Towers German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Kymi-Aliveri
surface form: Kymi-Aliveri
Greek
Dirfys-Messapia Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Economic Forum English
World Economic Forum French
World Economic Forum German
Zolkiewka Polish
Fügen German