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
Kashmir division Urdu NERFINISHED
Kashmir division Hindi
Kashmir division English
Kashmir division Dogri NERFINISHED
Kulgam district Kashmiri via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kulgam district Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kulgam district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kulgam district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pulwama district Urdu NERFINISHED
Pulwama district Kashmiri NERFINISHED
Pulwama district Dogri NERFINISHED
Pulwama district Hindi
Pulwama district English
Shopian district Kashmiri via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shopian district Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Shopian district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shopian district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ramban district Urdu NERFINISHED
Ramban district Hindi
Ramban district Dogri NERFINISHED
Ramban district Kashmiri
Ramban district English
Ganderbal district Kashmiri
Ganderbal district Urdu NERFINISHED
Ganderbal district Hindi
Ganderbal district Dogri NERFINISHED
Ganderbal district English
Qazigund Kashmiri NERFINISHED
Qazigund Urdu NERFINISHED
Qazigund Hindi
Qazigund English
Bijbehara Kashmiri via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bijbehara Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bijbehara Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bijbehara English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bijbehara Dogri via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
International Bank for Economic Cooperation Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Bank for Economic Cooperation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Verkhneuralsk prison Russian via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Altdorf German
Governor of Wisconsin English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfOffice"
Herentals Dutch
Beauharnois, Quebec French
Office of the Historian of the United States House of Representatives English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Executive branch of Azerbaijan Azerbaijani via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Milli Məclis Azerbaijani
GUAM Secretariat English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
GUAM Secretariat Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
GUAM Secretariat languages of GUAM member states via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"