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
Marnes-la-Coquette French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South Jersey Transportation Authority English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bøur Faroese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bøur Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vágar Municipality Faroese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Astara District Azerbaijani NERFINISHED
Ginosa Italian
Palagiano Italian
Statte Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Castellaneta Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leporano Italian
Pulsano Italian
Monteiasi Italian
Montemesola Italian
Torricella Italian
Faggiano Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Melipilla Spanish
Paine (town)
surface form: Paine
Spanish
Municipality of Paine Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Peñaflor commune Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Banco de Portugal Portuguese
Bank of Slovenia Slovene
Sidlaghatta Kannada NERFINISHED
Chikkaballapur district Kannada NERFINISHED
Shiggaon, Karnataka, India
surface form: Shiggaon
Kannada NERFINISHED
Police Polish
Anderlecht French
Anderlecht Dutch
Echten Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ansen Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oosteinde Dutch
Linde Dutch
Rogat Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berghuizen Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hardenberg Dutch
Tumu English
Lawra English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hamile English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Stalag Luft I German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Sobrance District Slovak
SK Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ristna Estonian
Bundaberg Regional Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Crescentino Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dutch Tax and Customs Administration Dutch
Castelo de Vide parish Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santa Marinella Italian
Uzhavoor Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uzhavoor English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Humacao Spanish