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
Wabun Station P.O. French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wabun Office English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wabun Office French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Weihui Standard Chinese
Tbilisi district Isani
surface form: Isani District
Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ibarra Canton Spanish
Cotacachi Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Wernborn German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Talaveruela de la Vera Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sint-Agatha-Berchem Dutch
Sint-Agatha-Berchem French
Sátoraljaújhely District Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Frenkendorf German
Qimei Township Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
Comune di Varese Italian
Montfort-en-Chalosse French
Canton Santa Cruz Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UrFO Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kurgan Russian
Chiliomodi Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Loutra Iraias, Arcadia, Greece
surface form: Loutra Iraias
Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kirovohrad Oblast State Administration Ukrainian
Oltenița, Călărași County, Romania
surface form: Oltenița
Romanian
Amestris Amestrian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qianjiang District, Chongqing Standard Chinese
iLembe District Municipality Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
iLembe District Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ibagué Spanish
Ertingen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fraser Valley Regional District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baghramyan Armenian
Gagarinsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pasarón de la Vera Spanish
Vehari District Urdu NERFINISHED
North West River English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Goro Amharic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Goro Oromo via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Government of Nagaland English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Longleng district English
Longleng district English via predicate surface "stateOfficialLanguage"
Meluri sub-division English
Wokha Town Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Wokha Town Council Nagamese (as a lingua franca) via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Mon district English
Konyak none via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageOf"
Zunheboto district English
La Calera Municipality Spanish
1970 FIBA World Championship English
1970 FIBA World Championship French
1970 FIBA World Championship Spanish