Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example is below.
Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bill Clinton ? Bill Clinton knows how to win friends and influence people. The former president is a master of reinvention — and the same talents that guided him into office have propelled him, more recently, into the stratosphere of Internet stardom.
A: Positive
Rationale: Here the author of the document praises Bill for this ability to win friends.
Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Nikolas Cruz ? Harrowing video footage taken from inside the high school where suspected shooter Nikolas Cruz opened fire on Wednesday shows distraught students crying and screaming as gunfire rings out.
That’s when police say  19-year-old Nikolas Cruz   equipped with a gas mask  smoke grenades and multiple magazines of ammunition  opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon  killing 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets.
 Nikolas Cruz   19  has been identified as the suspected shooter at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland  Fla.
Authorities offered no immediate details about  Cruz  or  his  possible motive  except to say that  he  had been kicked out of the high school  which has about 3 000 students.
Students who knew  him  described a volatile teenager whose strange behavior had caused others to end friendships with  him .
A:
Neutral