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
Gusen III German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Steyr-Münichholz subcamp German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
San Germán, Puerto Rico Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Germán, Puerto Rico English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mesnali Norwegian Bokmål NERFINISHED
Ubajara Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Shahdol division Hindi
New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico Spanish
New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico English
municipality of Madrid
surface form: Municipality of Madrid
Spanish
Varanasi North Hindi via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Yangzhong Standard Chinese
Brejo Grande Portuguese
Pedro Gálvez District Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Corvara in Badia Ladin NERFINISHED
Corvara in Badia German
Corvara in Badia Italian
Bela-Bela English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bela-Bela Afrikaans via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bela-Bela Northern Sotho via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bela-Bela Tswana via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bela-Bela Tsonga via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bela-Bela Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bela-Bela Southern Ndebele via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bela-Bela Venda via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bela-Bela Xhosa via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kiryat Ata Hebrew
Bizana Local Municipality (now part of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Local Municipality)
surface form: Bizana Local Municipality
English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bizana Local Municipality (now part of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Local Municipality)
surface form: Bizana Local Municipality
isiXhosa via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kanpur Dehat district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bada people Indonesian via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Gqeberha English
Gqeberha Afrikaans
Gqeberha Xhosa NERFINISHED
Judicial Power of the State of Hidalgo Spanish
IAU
surface form: International Association of Universities
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
IAU
surface form: International Association of Universities
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal (ICF)
surface form: Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal
español
Camas, Seville, Spain Spanish
Bulukumba Indonesian NERFINISHED
Castagniers French
Colomars French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Drap French
Utelle French
Duranus French
Massoins French
Thiéry French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bairols French
Ilonse French
Roure French