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: Evangelical Association | Statement: [United Brethren in Christ, mergedWith, Evangelical Association]

Target entity: Evangelical Association
Context triple: [United Brethren in Christ, mergedWith, Evangelical Association]

• A. Evangelical Association chosen
  The Evangelical Association was a 19th-century American Methodist denomination of German-speaking Protestants that later became part of the lineage leading to the United Methodist Church.
• B. Evangelical Union
  The Evangelical Union was a coalition of Protestant German states formed in the early 17th century to defend their religious and political interests during the tensions leading up to the Thirty Years’ War.
• C. Protestant Association
  The Protestant Association was an 18th-century British pressure group led by Lord George Gordon that campaigned against Catholic emancipation and helped spark the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780.
• D. Evangelical United Brethren Church
  The Evangelical United Brethren Church was a mid-20th-century American Protestant denomination formed by the merger of German-heritage evangelical groups, later uniting with the Methodist Church in 1968 to create the United Methodist Church.
• E. National Association of Evangelicals
  The National Association of Evangelicals is a major U.S.-based umbrella organization that represents and coordinates a wide range of evangelical Christian denominations, ministries, and institutions in matters of faith, public policy, and social engagement.
• F. None of above.
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.