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
Élancourt French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mountain View
surface form: Mountain View, Alberta
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dharapuram Tamil NERFINISHED
Příbram District Czech via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Warora Marathi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Beckenried German
Labhpur Bengali NERFINISHED
Labhpur English
Valparaíso
surface form: Valparaíso, Caquetá
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alxa Right Banner Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Alxa Right Banner Mongolian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ribnica Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Groß-Gerau German NERFINISHED
Ixmiquilpan Municipality Spanish
San Luis
surface form: San Luis, Batangas
Filipino via predicate surface "nationalLanguage" NERFINISHED
San Luis
surface form: San Luis, Batangas
Filipino NERFINISHED
San Luis
surface form: San Luis, Batangas
English
Pagbilao Filipino NERFINISHED
Pagbilao English
Gumaca Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gumaca English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sugauli Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sugauli Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sugauli Maithili via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ballari district, Karnataka, India
surface form: Ballari district
Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tyumen Governorate, Russian Empire Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Tyumen Governorate, Russian Empire Russian language via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Russian Russian Federation via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Russian Belarus via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Russian Kazakhstan via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Russian Kyrgyzstan via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Russian Abkhazia via predicate surface "coOfficialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Russian South Ossetia via predicate surface "coOfficialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Russian Transnistria via predicate surface "coOfficialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina Spanish
Arrondissement of Namur French
Arrondissement of Philippeville French
Philippeville French
Philippeville French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Andenne French
Viroinval French
Profondeville French
Hastière French
Sambreville French
Floreffe French
Mettet French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gedinne French
Onhaye French
Walcourt French
Doische French