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
Monteros Spanish
Salto Department Spanish
Badlapur Marathi NERFINISHED
Holloway Prison English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Municipality of Lecco Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Puntagorda
surface form: Puntagorda
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Los Llanos de Aridane
surface form: Los Llanos de Aridane
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tenali Telugu NERFINISHED
Repalle Telugu NERFINISHED
California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mairie du 15e arrondissement de Paris French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Wah Urdu NERFINISHED
Guangdong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Río Cauto Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
General Office of Henan Provincial People’s Government Chinese
Henan Provincial Department of Public Security Standard Chinese
Henan Provincial Department of Natural Resources Chinese
Pei Commandery Classical Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse" NERFINISHED
Ferno Italian
Case Nuove Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coarezza Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mezzana Italian
Balurghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Bengali via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Balurghat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Balurghat subdivision Bengali
Block C
surface form: Block C, Kalyani
Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
West Tripura district Bengali NERFINISHED
West Tripura district Kokborok NERFINISHED
West Tripura district English
Agartala Municipal Corporation Bengali via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Agartala Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Tripura Legislative Assembly Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tripura Legislative Assembly Kokborok via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tripura Legislative Assembly English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
arrondissement of Figeac French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Milan
surface form: Milan, Caquetá
Spanish
Guangzhou DRC Chinese
Comune di Trevi Italian
Xia County Standard Chinese
ACU
surface form: Asian Clearing Union
English
Ministry of Sport and Youth of Iran Persian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministère de la Défense nationale French
Specialised Committee on separation provisions English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Specialised Committee on separation provisions official languages of the European Union, as applicable in the Withdrawal Agreement context via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Balazote Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Huelma Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
present-day Spain
surface form: Spain
Spanish
al-Andalus urban network Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Moinești, Romania
surface form: Moinești
Romanian