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
2004 World Figure Skating Championships English
2004 World Figure Skating Championships German
Ulhasnagar Marathi NERFINISHED
Ulhasnagar Hindi
Santa Rita, Guam English
Ningcheng County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manzhouli Chinese
Kiryat Ben-Gurion Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kiryat Ben-Gurion Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trosly-Breuil, France
surface form: Trosly-Breuil
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kingdom of the French French
Sferracavallo Italian NERFINISHED
Ortigueira Galician NERFINISHED
Ortigueira Spanish
San Vicente
surface form: San Vicente, Ensenada
Spanish
Van Municipality Turkish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Saronno Italian
Griesheim German NERFINISHED
Lichtenau (Saxony) German
admission of Indiana English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Bo town Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
بنينة العربية via predicate surface "اللغة_الرسمية"
Yên Thủy District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Burladingen German NERFINISHED
Huadu District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Government of the Province of Jujuy Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bapatla district Telugu via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Kachua Upazila Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Arbeláez Spanish
Dihlabeng Local Municipality Sesotho via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dihlabeng Local Municipality Afrikaans via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dihlabeng Local Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Perak Tengah District Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Laurent-des-Bois French
Khan Yunis Arabic
Huangshi Commerce Bureau Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Huangshi Culture and Tourism Bureau Chinese
Daye Municipal People's Government Standard Chinese
大冶市 普通话
Comune di Ossuccio Italian
New Russia Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Sapporo City Hall Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Lloydtown English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Snowball English
Strange English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Glenville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Springhill
surface form: Springhill, King, Ontario
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Springhill
surface form: Springhill, King, Ontario
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kingdale English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Glenville Station English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"