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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: Northern Expansion Doctrine | Statement: [Japanese Nanshin-ron, contrastedWith, Northern Expansion Doctrine]

Target entity: Northern Expansion Doctrine
Context triple: [Japanese Nanshin-ron, contrastedWith, Northern Expansion Doctrine]

• A. Northern Expansion Doctrine chosen
  The Northern Expansion Doctrine was an Imperial Japanese military and political strategy that advocated expansion into Siberia and the Soviet Far East to secure resources and strategic dominance.
• B. Southern Expansion Doctrine
  The Southern Expansion Doctrine was an early 20th-century Japanese imperialist strategy advocating political, economic, and military expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
• C. United States territorial expansion
  United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
• D. Northern Advance Doctrine
  The Northern Advance Doctrine was an Imperial Japanese Army strategic policy advocating expansion into Siberia and the Soviet Far East as Japan’s primary direction of military and territorial expansion before and during the early 20th century.
• E. Hallstein Doctrine
  The Hallstein Doctrine was a Cold War-era West German foreign policy that refused diplomatic relations with any country (except the USSR) that recognized East Germany as a sovereign state.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.