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
East Asian Football Federation Japanese
East Asian Football Federation Korean
Supercopa de España de Baloncesto Spanish
GPC
surface form: Green Party of Canada
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
GPC
surface form: Green Party of Canada
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parbhani Marathi NERFINISHED
Sfax Governorate Arabic
La Pocatière, Quebec French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Damietta Port Authority Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nyeri, British Kenya English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
La Almunia de Doña Godina Spanish
Zuera Spanish
Utebo Spanish
Cuarte de Huerva Spanish
Borja Spanish
Cinco Villas comarca Spanish
Ribera Alta del Ebro comarca
surface form: Ribera Alta del Ebro
Spanish
Valdejalón comarca Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Miranda do Douro (city)
surface form: Miranda do Douro
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malacatán Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ayutla Spanish
San José Ojetenam Spanish
ISA
surface form: Immigration Services Agency of Japan
Japanese
Parbhani district Marathi NERFINISHED
Nueva Extremadura province Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bas-Saint-Laurent French
Salavan Province Lao
Buôn Ma Thuột Vietnamese
Aleppo Eyalet Ottoman Turkish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Roman province of Moesia
surface form: Moesia
Latin via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Refstad Norwegian
İmralı F-Type High-Security Closed Prison Turkish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Baqa al-Gharbiyye Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baqa al-Gharbiyye Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Menashe Regional Council Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
سوسة العربية
Nicolet, Quebec French
Kalambaka municipality Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sant Joan de les Abadesses Catalan NERFINISHED
Sant Joan de les Abadesses Spanish
Northern Railway English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Northern Railway Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Copa Centroamericana Spanish
Malihabad tehsil Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mohanlalganj tehsil Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hardoi district Hindi
Banjarangkan District Indonesian
Calvià Spanish
Calvià Catalan NERFINISHED
NKVD Special Camp No. 4 Bautzen Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"