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: Spanish colonization of Alta California | Statement: [Portolá expedition, partOf, Spanish colonization of Alta California]

Target entity: Spanish colonization of Alta California
Context triple: [Portolá expedition, partOf, Spanish colonization of Alta California]

• A. Spanish colonial period in California chosen
  The Spanish colonial period in California was the era from the late 18th to early 19th centuries when Spain established missions, presidios, and pueblos that reshaped the region’s Indigenous societies and laid the foundations for modern California.
• B. Spanish missions in California
  The Spanish missions in California were a chain of 21 religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics along the Pacific coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to colonize the region and convert Indigenous peoples to Christianity.
• C. Spanish conquest of northern New Spain
  The Spanish conquest of northern New Spain was a series of late 16th- and early 17th-century military and colonizing campaigns through which Spanish forces subdued Indigenous peoples and established settlements across what is now northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
• D. Mexican Alta California
  Mexican Alta California was a vast northwestern province of Mexico from 1821 to 1848, encompassing much of present-day California and parts of neighboring U.S. states before its cession to the United States.
• E. Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
  The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was the early 16th-century military and political campaign led by Hernán Cortés that toppled the powerful Aztec civilization and brought central Mexico under Spanish colonial rule.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.