Triple

Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).

Phrase: U.S. annexation of Texas | Statement: [Thornton Affair, precededBy, U.S. annexation of Texas]

Target entity: U.S. annexation of Texas
Context triple: [Thornton Affair, precededBy, U.S. annexation of Texas]

• A. Annexation of Texas chosen
  The Annexation of Texas was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States, a pivotal expansionist move that heightened sectional tensions over slavery in the antebellum era.
• B. California annexation by the United States
  California annexation by the United States was the mid-19th-century process, culminating in the Mexican–American War and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which the U.S. took control of Mexican Alta California and incorporated it into its territory.
• C. Anglo-American colonization of Texas
  Anglo-American colonization of Texas was the early 19th-century process by which settlers from the United States, led by empresarios like Stephen F. Austin, established Anglo communities in Mexican Texas, laying the groundwork for Texas independence.
• D. United States territorial expansion
  United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
• E. Louisiana Purchase
  The Louisiana Purchase was an 1803 land deal in which the United States bought a vast territory from France, doubling the nation's size and securing control of the Mississippi River region.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.