Triple

Target class: colonial elite
Context triple: [encomenderos in the Americas, instanceOf, colonial elite]

• A. member of colonial elite chosen
  A member of the colonial elite is an individual belonging to the small, privileged upper class in a colony who holds significant economic power, social status, and political influence, often through landownership, trade, or administrative roles tied to the colonial system.
• B. ruling class
  The ruling class is the social group that holds dominant political, economic, and cultural power within a society, enabling it to shape institutions, policies, and prevailing ideologies in its own interests.
• C. colonial proprietor
  A colonial proprietor is an individual or entity granted ownership and governing rights over a colony by a sovereign power, responsible for its administration, development, and profit.
• D. urban ruling elite
  The urban ruling elite are the small, powerful group of individuals and families who dominate a city’s political, economic, and cultural institutions through concentrated wealth, influence, and social networks.
• E. colonial community
  A colonial community is a group of people living together in a settlement established and governed by a foreign power, shaped by unequal political, economic, and cultural relationships between colonizers and the colonized.
• F. None of above.