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
Mespelare Dutch NERFINISHED
Schoonaarde Dutch
St.-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Geldrop-Mierlo Dutch
Kozármisleny Hungarian NERFINISHED
Vöcklabruck District German
Grand Ducal estates of Luxembourg Luxembourgish via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse" NERFINISHED
Grand Ducal estates of Luxembourg French via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Grand Ducal estates of Luxembourg German via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Berg Luxembourgish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berg French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Betzdorf (locality) Luxembourgish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Betzdorf (locality) French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Betzdorf (locality) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mensdorf Luxembourgish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mensdorf French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mensdorf German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Roodt-sur-Syre Luxembourgish
Roodt-sur-Syre French
Roodt-sur-Syre German NERFINISHED
Junglinster Luxembourgish
Junglinster French
Junglinster German
Biwer Luxembourgish NERFINISHED
Biwer French NERFINISHED
Biwer German
Schuttrange Luxembourgish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Schuttrange French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Schuttrange German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mārupe Municipality Latvian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yarmouth
surface form: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
English
Trysil Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Presidência da República Portuguese
eastern Guatemala
surface form: Eastern Guatemala
Spanish via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Jagadhri Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Duncan, British Columbia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sarandë Municipality Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Neryungrinsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nuku Hiva French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Цхинвал осетинский язык
Цхинвал русский язык
Цхинвал грузинский язык
Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada
surface form: Rouyn-Noranda
French
Wolhusen German NERFINISHED
Langnau im Emmental German
Orgelet French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gilboa Regional Council area Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Moers German
Ohio County, Virginia English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"