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: East India Company proprietors | Statement: [East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act 1873, concerns, East India Company proprietors]

Target entity: East India Company proprietors
Context triple: [East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act 1873, concerns, East India Company proprietors]

• A. British East India Company chosen
  The British East India Company was a powerful English trading corporation that dominated commerce and colonial expansion in India and Asia from the 17th to the 19th century.
• B. Lords and Gentlemen Proprietors
  Lords and Gentlemen Proprietors were a group of English aristocratic investors and landholders who organized and financed the early 17th-century colonial venture that became the Saybrook Colony in New England.
• C. Lords Proprietors
  The Lords Proprietors were a group of English nobles granted ownership and governing rights over the Province of Carolina in colonial America.
• D. British South Sea Company
  The British South Sea Company was an early 18th-century English trading and finance corporation notorious for its role in the South Sea Bubble and its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
• E. City of London merchants
  City of London merchants were influential early modern English traders and financiers based in London’s commercial hub, heavily involved in overseas commerce, including colonial and slave-trading enterprises.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.