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
Civitaquana Italian NERFINISHED
Bohumín Czech
Niederglatt German
Huningue French
Charaideo district Assamese NERFINISHED
Consulate General of France in Chicago French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Consulate General of France in Chicago English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dubrovno District Belarusian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Dubrovno District Russian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Dubrovno District authorities Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Dubrovno District authorities Belarusian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Gefle IF Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Archdeaconry of Wandsworth English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Doomdooma Assamese
Margherita Assamese NERFINISHED
Margherita English
Mpanda Town Council Swahili via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mpanda Town Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Neuheim German
Sud-Est department French
Skanderborg Municipality Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lyon, Rhône, France French
Dudhrej Gujarati NERFINISHED
Dudhrej Hindi
The Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs of Denmark
surface form: Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs of Denmark
Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Föra Swedish NERFINISHED
Georgina English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ramara English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Municipality of Pristina Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Municipality of Pristina Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oostgaarde Dutch
UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Murillo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ibagué city government Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Soibada Tetum NERFINISHED
Soibada Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Directorate General of Intellectual Property Indonesian
Utrikesdepartementet Swedish
Daulatkhan Upazila Bengali
Diphu Assamese NERFINISHED
نوف هچليل العبرية via predicate surface "اللغة_الرسمية_المستخدمة"
نتسيرت عيليت العبرية via predicate surface "لغة_رسمية"
Pereslavsky District Russian
Lien Hai Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Basti District
surface form: Basti district
Hindi
Basti District
surface form: Basti district
Urdu NERFINISHED