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
southern Mali French NERFINISHED
Jingmen Municipal Health Commission Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jingmen Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Soukainen Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eshan Yi Autonomous County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
GVRD English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Village of Belcarra English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mrgashat Armenian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Aygek Armenian
Phường Dịch Vọng Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Committee of Nghĩa Tân Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
New York City Almshouse (Bellevue Hospital predecessor) English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Mackinac Island Township, Michigan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico Spanish
Toa Baja, Puerto Rico English
Kruisem Dutch
Kluisbergen Dutch
Zingem Dutch
Zwalm Dutch
Wortegem-Petegem Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Herzele Dutch
Sint-Maria-Oudenhove Dutch
Etikhove Dutch
Schorisse Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Wasit Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Ash Shamli Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vyazemsky District, Smolensk Oblast Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Vyazemsky District, Smolensk Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uvarovo Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
WSW
surface form: World Space Week
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baltic provinces German via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Baltic provinces Russian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Baltic provinces Latin via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Jefferson Territory English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Giang Biên Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
North American Zone English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
North American Zone Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
North American Zone French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Daerah Rembau Malay
Paroi Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Umm al-Ghanam Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Düppel, Berlin German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Moirang Meitei language NERFINISHED
Moirang Manipuri NERFINISHED
Thoubal district Meitei (Manipuri) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tibiritá Municipality Spanish
Chocontá Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Turnhout Dutch
Morges District French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Inzai Japanese