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 colonial authorities in New Spain | Statement: [Christianization of central Mexico, supportedBy, Spanish colonial authorities in New Spain]

Target entity: Spanish colonial authorities in New Spain
Context triple: [Christianization of central Mexico, supportedBy, Spanish colonial authorities in New Spain]

• A. Viceroyalty of New Spain chosen
  The Viceroyalty of New Spain was a major administrative division of the Spanish Empire in the Americas, encompassing much of present-day Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of the present-day United States from the 16th to the early 19th century.
• B. Spanish colonization of the Americas
  The Spanish colonization of the Americas was the extensive imperial expansion by Spain from the late 15th century onward that conquered and settled vast territories in the Western Hemisphere, reshaping indigenous societies, economies, cultures, and demographics across the New World.
• C. Spanish conquistadors
  Spanish conquistadors were soldiers, explorers, and adventurers from Spain who led the military campaigns that brought much of the Americas under Spanish control in the 16th century.
• D. 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.
• E. 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.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.