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: Annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States | Statement: [Isaac Van Zandt, notableWork, Annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States]

Target entity: Annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States
Context triple: [Isaac Van Zandt, notableWork, Annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States]

• 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. Isolation of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy
  The Isolation of the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy refers to the effective cutoff of Confederate territories west of the Mississippi River from the rest of the Confederacy, severely limiting their ability to coordinate, supply, and reinforce each other during the American Civil War.
• D. 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.
• E. Kansas–Nebraska Act
  The Kansas–Nebraska Act was an 1854 U.S. law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and inflamed sectional tensions by allowing settlers there to decide the legality of slavery through popular sovereignty, effectively nullifying the Missouri Compromise.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.