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: British private merchants | Statement: [British opium trade in China, keyActor, British private merchants]

Target entity: British private merchants
Context triple: [British opium trade in China, keyActor, British private merchants]

• A. City of London merchants chosen
  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.
• B. English merchants of the Company of Adventurers
  English merchants of the Company of Adventurers were a group of London-based investors and traders who financed early 17th-century voyages of exploration and commerce, including Henry Hudson’s expeditions in search of new trade routes.
• C. British merchant navy
  The British merchant navy is the United Kingdom’s civilian commercial shipping fleet, responsible for transporting goods and passengers worldwide under the British flag.
• 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. British East India Company
  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.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.