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
Bhangar Bengali NERFINISHED
Bhangar English
Bény-sur-Mer French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bageshwar district Hindi
Brighton
surface form: Brighton, Ontario
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orocué Spanish
Hato Corozal Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Warr Acres English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nicoma Park English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
EPPO English
EPPO French
EPPO German
OLAF all official languages of the European Union
Nieuport, West Flanders Dutch
Cravo Norte Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tame Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lara State Spanish
Sipoo Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sipoo Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Vanda Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Vanda Swedish via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Municipality of Tonalá, Jalisco Spanish
Tizapán el Alto Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mezcala de la Asunción Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Esperanza, Sonora Spanish
Bácum Spanish
Quiriego Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Suaqui Grande Spanish
La Colorada Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Alto Hospicio Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Talkha Arabic
Dekernes Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Belqas Arabic
Sherbin Arabic
Gamasa Arabic
دقهلية
surface form: محافظة الدقهلية
اللغة العربية via predicate surface "لغة_رسمية"
OH House
surface form: Ohio House of Representatives
English
Táchira State Spanish
Saravena Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Ignacio Río Muerto Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rosario, Sonora Spanish
Dubois County, Indiana English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beersel Dutch
Årdal Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Puerto Berrío Spanish
Thanh Liem District Vietnamese
Guayama, Puerto Rico Spanish
Guayama, Puerto Rico English
Vratsa Province Bulgarian
Bijelo Polje Montenegrin