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 Al Sharpton ? According to Michael McCarthy of the Sporting News  Hill appeared on the Sunday edition of Al Sharptonâs PoliticsNation on MSNBC  where  not surprisingly  people discuss politics. An issue that ESPN has gone to great lengths to discourage Hill  and other ESPN personalities  from addressing on âpublic-facing forums.â
Though  Hill and  Sharpton  could be engaged in a bit of political rope-a-dope.
 Sharpton  threatened to lead boycotts and protests of ESPN if the network suspended  her  for calling President Trump a âwhite supremacist.â Though itâs impossible to know  Hill may have agreed to go on  Sharpton âs show  believing that ESPN would be unlikely to fire or discipline  her  due to  Sharpton âs high-profile and ability to organize boycotts.
This explanation also makes sense considering that Hill would have had to get permission from ESPN to do the interview in the first place. Had ESPN denied Hill the ability to do the interview  then  Sharpton  would have blasted the network on  his  program and through  his  National Action Network. Given  Sharpton âs ability to agitate  ESPN could have regarded Hillâs appearance on  Sharpton âs show as  âprotected speech.â
A:
Positive