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: Whiskey Ring scandal | Statement: [Grant administration, hasEvent, Whiskey Ring scandal]

Target entity: Whiskey Ring scandal
Context triple: [Grant administration, hasEvent, Whiskey Ring scandal]

• A. Whiskey Ring scandal chosen
  The Whiskey Ring scandal was a major 1870s U.S. political corruption scheme involving distillers and government officials who conspired to defraud the federal government of liquor tax revenues during President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.
• B. Ballinger–Pinchot affair
  The Ballinger–Pinchot affair was a major U.S. political scandal of the early 1910s involving disputes over conservation policy and public land management that deepened the rift within the Republican Party and damaged President William Howard Taft’s administration.
• C. Thornton Affair
  The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
• D. Gaspee Affair
  The Gaspee Affair was a 1772 pre-Revolutionary incident in which American colonists attacked and burned the British customs schooner HMS Gaspee, helping fuel tensions that led to the American Revolution.
• E. Teapot Dome scandal
  The Teapot Dome scandal was a major 1920s U.S. political corruption case involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves that severely damaged public trust in the Harding administration.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.