Triple

Target class: British penal colony
Context triple: [Van Diemen's Land, instanceOf, British penal colony]

• A. former British colony
  A former British colony is a territory that was once governed or administered by the British Empire but has since gained independence or undergone a change in political status.
• B. former colonial settlement
  A former colonial settlement is a community or territory originally established and governed by a foreign colonial power that has since transitioned to local or independent control, often retaining cultural, architectural, and institutional legacies of its colonial past.
• C. English colonial settlement
  An English colonial settlement is a community established by England in foreign territories during the age of exploration and empire, serving as a base for resource extraction, trade, and cultural expansion.
• D. British colonial federation
  A British colonial federation is a proposed or actual political union that grouped multiple British colonies under a single federal structure to centralize governance while retaining local administrations.
• E. British Crown dependency
  A British Crown dependency is a self-governing territory under the sovereignty of the British Crown that is not part of the United Kingdom but relies on it for defense and international representation.
• F. None of above. chosen