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
Addis Ababa Region Amharic NERFINISHED
Tolosa Basque via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tolosa Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Zubia Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Armilla Spanish
Neelum District Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Athmuqam Urdu NERFINISHED
Qakh Azerbaijani
Marsan Azerbaijani via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Täsch German
Gmina Chełmek Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Kęty Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Osiek Polish
Gmina Polanka Wielka Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Przeciszów Polish
UNESCO World Heritage Site of Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Herzogenaurach German
Rengo Spanish
Montague, Ontario English
Imbros Turkish via predicate surface "currentOfficialLanguage"
Gucheng County Standard Chinese
Cadereyta Jiménez Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Darbenai Lithuanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Rhynern German
Beckett Festival (Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival) English
Brackwede German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
CSA
surface form: Canadian Soccer Association
English
CSA
surface form: Canadian Soccer Association
French
Borgosesia Italian NERFINISHED
Romagnano Sesia Italian
Narsinghpur Vidhan Sabha constituency Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Niwari district Hindi
Kiryat Yosef neighborhood Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brinston English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brinston French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hulbert English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mariatown English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shanly English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shanly French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of Williamsburg English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Heusden (Asten) Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Someren Dutch
Chari-Baguirmi region
surface form: Chari-Baguirmi
French
Chari-Baguirmi region
surface form: Chari-Baguirmi
Arabic
Cascais Municipality Portuguese
Samnam-myeon Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kinh language Vietnam via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Kinh language Vietnam via predicate surface "nationalLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Três Corações Portuguese
La Tranche-sur-Mer French