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].

[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lankford ? "We watched even this weekend  the Russians and their troll farms  and their internet folks  start hash-tagging out 'take a knee' and also hash-tagging out 'Boycott NFL '" said Lankford  whoâs a member of the Intelligence Committee. Theyâre trying âto raise the noise level in America to try to make a big issue  an even bigger issue as theyâre trying to just push divisiveness in the country. Weâve continued to be able to see that. Weâll see it again in our election time.â
FBI Director Christopher Wray  who testified about his agencyâs work  did not directly address  Lankfordâs  claim  but said the FBI is working to track Russian efforts to influence U.S. elections.
 Lankfordâs  spokesman said the senator has been receiving information about Russian trolls sowing discord in the U.S. for more than a year.
"Senator Lankford made an individual decision to start talking about this publicly  because he believes the American people should know '' said  the spokesman .
As an example   the spokesman  pointed to a Russian Twitter user called Boston Antifa but the geolocation of the account is in Vladivostok  Russia.
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Marat Safin ? And with a mangled racket and plenty of kicking and screaming  including a couple of arguments with the chair umpire  then a postmatch parting shot at a line judge Safin called "a little bit too blind."
 Safin used to rant about disliking tennis on grass  and he once complained about the high price and low quality of food at the players' restaurant at the All England Club. Well  he doesn't have to worry about any of that again after bowing out in his final Wimbledon with a 6-2  3-6  7-6 (4)  6-4 loss to Levine.
 After confirming this would be his last appearance at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament -- Safin has vowed to retire at season's end -- he was asked how he feels about being done with Wimbledon.
 He's a former No. 1 player who won the 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open  but a series of injuries slowed him recently. Still  Safin came to Wimbledon ranked 24th and seeded 14th  and had to be considered quite a favorite against Levine  who never had defeated anyone ranked better than 67th.
Safin has vowed to retire at season's end -- he was asked how he feels about being done with Wimbledon.
 He's a former No. 1 player who won the 2000 U.S. Open and 2005 Australian Open  but a series of injuries slowed him recently. Still  Safin came to Wimbledon ranked 24th and seeded 14th  and had to be considered quite a favorite against Levine  who never had defeated anyone ranked better than 67th.
 "He's an amazing player  and I'm still kind of feeling weird right now that I just beat Safin  because I've always watched him play on TV " said Levine  who turned pro in 2007. "I just kind of went out there with nothing to lose and played some good tennis."
 Levine was a teen when Safin burst onto the scene as a brash  big-hitting 20-year-old who knocked off Sampras to win the U.S. Open.
 "I really had to ... focus on playing against the ball and not worrying about  'Oh  wow  I'm playing against Marat Safin on the other side of the court '" Levine said. "Because then things could have gotten a lot more interesting."
 As is his wont  Safin made things interesting enough. In the early going  he broke his racket by spiking it on the court.
 Leading 4-3 in the third-set tiebreaker  Safin hit a shot near a line that was ruled out. Afterward  Safin said: "Thanks for the guy who made the call. I want to say hello to him. Too bad that he was a little bit too blind."
 In the fourth set  Safin told the chair umpire he could check for chalk on the ball to confirm a call. Rebuffed  Safin added: "So all players are stupid?"
 Safin reached at least the semifinals at all four majors  including at Wimbledon last year  but he has been criticized for not living up to the potential stored in his 6-foot-4 (1.93-meter) frame -- about 7 inches (18 centimeters) taller than Levine.
 "In the history of tennis  everybody's an underachiever " Safin said. "Agassi should have been winning  I don't know  15 Grand Slams. Sampras should have been winning 20 Grand Slams. Federer should be winning -- already should have 25."
 "I should probably have (won) a couple of more " he said  "but I'm pretty satisfied with what I did."
[A]: Negative


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity David Shapiro ? David Shapiro’s  smear of Jeff Sessions in a Chicago Tribune op-ed  suggesting that the attorney general is a racist  is consistent with other failed partisan efforts to distort and delegitimize the former senator’s record on race and law enforcement. Apparently   Shapiro  missed Sessions’s confirmation hearing in which the same smears were attempted only to be refuted one by one by witnesses — mostly black — who actually know the facts and the man.
 Shapiro  asserts Sessions’s directive to staff on criminal sentencing related to drug crimes is “the latest in a series of attempts by the Attorney General to tear down protections for people of color.”  Mr. Shapiro  seems to have forgotten that during the height of the crack epidemic ravaging the black community in the ’80s  it was Congressman Charlie Rangel and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who voted for the Anti-Drug Abuse Act (“ADAA”)  which established the 100-1 sentencing ratio for crack and powder cocaine. Were Rangel and other members of Congress racist?
The rest of  Shapiro ’s piece is character assassination of the worst kind. As U.S. attorney for Alabama  Sessions successfully sought the death penalty for Klan members.  He  defended black voting rights.  He  hired blacks for prominent positions. As a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights  I’ve known and worked with Jeff Sessions for years and consider him the most principled and decent person in Washington  a man of the highest integrity.
 Shapiro ’s complaint seems to be that Attorney General Sessions is actually doing  his  job — enforcing the law as Congress passed it. In contrast  former attorneys general Holder and Lynch  under the veil of “prosecutorial discretion ” failed to enforce the law. Select immigration and sentencing laws were simply ignored  virtually wholesale. That’s not the role of the attorney general  whether his name is Holder or Sessions. Such a sweeping use of prosecutorial discretion effectively nullifies or rewrites federal law. If drug laws need to be changed  Congress needs to change them. Holder’s and Lynch’s actions were a plain derogation  if not usurpation  of legislative authority. That Attorney General Sessions is being criticized for restoring both the rule of law and the Justice Department to their proper roles is an indication of how debased respect for the rule of law has become.
[A]:
Negative