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].

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Al Franken ? Sen. Al Franken  officially resigned on Jan. 2  nearly a month after  he  announced  his  plans to step down from Congress amid numerous sexual misconduct allegations that began in November of last year.
Aides to  the senator  told Fox News that  Franken  has provided  his  letter of resignation to Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith  who is replacing  Franken   is expected to be sworn in on Wednesday.
 Franken   a Minnesota Democrat who has been in office since 2009  was plagued by multiple accusations of sexual misconduct over the past month and faced a Senate Ethics Committee investigation. The allegations began after Los Angeles radio anchor Leeann Tweeden accused him of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour.
 Franken  announced  he  would resign after more than two dozen key Democratic lawmakers called for  him  to step down.
Hereâs what will happen to  his  Senate seat once  he  leaves office  according to Minnesota election law.
Gov. Mark Dayton would appoint a new senator to fill  Franken âs seat  when  he  resigns  Ryan Furlong  a spokesman for the Minnesota secretary of stateâs office  told Fox News.
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Yolanda Vega ? Yolanda Vega (r.)  presents prize money to New York Lottery winner from Long Island Leelawatie Pittam (l.) inside Resorts World Casino on Tuesday  Nov. 28  2017 in Queens  New York. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News)
“You gotta keep playing ”  he  said. “You gotta be in it to win it.”
 He  wasn’t the only lucky winner announced Tuesday.
She was equally excited to meet Yolanda Vega  the lottery official who hands winners their oversized checks.
[EX A]: Neutral

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bill Gothard ? "They had heard about  Bill Gothard   founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP)  who was a really big deal in Oregon. They attended  his  seminars and embraced the IBLP homeschooling curriculum wholeheartedly.
" He  was an icon  kind of like a prophet. The seminars involved a week of intensive brainwashing.  He  was the authority.  His  word was the law.
"There was a lot of heavy-handed smacking from our parents. To disobey them  was to disobey God. The system was especially awful for the little ones. At  Bill Gothard's  seminars he used to talk about 'breaking their will'.
Judy believes there is a connection between the Turpin family and  Bill Gothard  and the IBLP:
"Under Bill Gothard's teachings  I was sent to Taiwan aged 21 to teach English for six months.
The Washington Post reported that  Bill Gothard  resigned from the IBLP ministry in 2014 amid allegations of sexual abuse  which  he  denied  and in 2016 there were further details of a lawsuit filed by 10 women.
[EX A]:
Neutral