TASK DEFINITION: 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].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bob Woodward ? âHe sees himself as a strong man  or wants to see himself as a strong man â Bernstein â who broke the Watergate scandal for  The Washington Post with Bob Woodward â  told the crowd at Northeastern Illinois University on Thursday night.
 Woodward  wasnât much kinder  describing as âShakespeareanâ an encounter  he  had with Trump in which Trump rejected former President Barack Obamaâs praise of American humility and restraint in the exercise of power and told Woodward  âReal power comes from fear.â
âIn a sense  thatâs the Trump âRosebud â â  Woodward  added  alluding to a plot element in the film âCitizen Kane.â
The White House did not respond to a request for comment. But Bernstein  73  and Woodward  74  sparred agreeably onstage like an old married couple. When Bernsteinâs exuberant arm gestures left his handheld microphone out of range   Woodward  scolded him  âHold the microphone steady!â
And when Bernstein admitted to recently rereading sections of âAll The Presidentâs Men â their best-selling book about Watergate   Woodward  told him  âThis is like Gloria Swanson â referring to the role Swanson played in âSunset Boulevardâ of an embittered old Hollywood star who dreams of a return to her glory years.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Steve Mills ? Knicks GM Scott Perry (left) and team president Steve Mills (center) have plenty of decisions to make. (Steve Freeman/NBAE/Getty Images)
Knicks president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry are in no rush to shake up the roster with the trade deadline looming next week. And honestly  there isn't a lot the Knicks can do. They'd love to move Joakim Noah but unless they attach a first-round pick to any Noah deal â which they won't â a trade involving the veteran center is unlikely.
Once  Mills  replaced Jackson and subsequently hired Perry  everything that happens with the Knicks is now on them. Understandably  they don't want to give off the impression that they don't have control of the situation and of the players.
 Mills  knows Knicks history and Dolan as well as anyone. Thus  he proceeds with caution.
Even though  Mills  isn't at fault here  it 's important for him to give off the impression that the front office has this Noah situation under control. Again  smart move.
If you go back to last summer   Mills  didn't rush into trading Carmelo Anthony and in fact vetoed the deal Jackson had made with the Houston Rockets. Instead  Mills and Perry waited until the 11th hour to make a trade with Oklahoma City. Their patience was rewarded. Carmelo and OKC have certainly found their form but Enes Kanter has been a solid addition to the Knicks.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Vince Staples ? Vince Staples  Believes  He  Deserves All The Grammys  But  He  Isn't Holding  His  Breath
 Vince Staples  is impossible to categorize. A Southern Cali MC who prides himself on his Long Beach bona fides while eschewing the prototypical gangsta rap tag with which he's often mis-labled  he's a natural at bucking the status quo. Yet he also sees clear divisions between art and commerce that lead him to question how institutions choose to define â or fail to distinguish â the two.
So when  Staples  found himself the subject of a recent Grammy campaign â initiated by Uproxx hip-hop editor Aaron Williams  who likened the EDM sonics of  Staples ' 2017 LP Big Fish Theory to "a post-apocalyptic pinball machine" â he was less interested in discussing whether or not his album is Grammy-worthy than he was in questioning the very construct upon which the Recording Academy recognizes and rewards genre-bending artists of color.
But  Staples ' argument is bigger than hip-hop. It's a critique rooted in the racial dynamic that has kept black artists in the industry categorically separate and unequal since the inception of "race music."
In a sense   Staples  is the kind of artist the academy tends to clamor over â a major-label signee who subverts mainstream convention. While his peers chase after collaborations with bankable trap producers  his album credits are filled with left-field collaborators Kilo Kish and Zack Seckoff  a young unknown producer largely responsible for Big Fish Theory's industrial-driven electronics.
No doubt   Staples  prizes his creative idiosyncrasies: "Hitchcock in my modern day / Where the f*** is my VMA? / Where the f*** is my Grammy?" as he raps on Big Fish Theory's "Homage."
The message is the easiest part of this whole thing. The hard part of music is designing the product and marketing the product â figuring out what it looks like  what it sounds like  what it feels like    who to sell it to and how to get  them  to believe that it's more important than  themselves . When you've figured that out  that's when you become a star.
But  yeah  let's really talk about it. If we really want to have a Vince Staples Grammy campaign  someone tell me why I can't be in every genre that my music is kind of reminiscent of? Because the argument within hip-hop is that my music doesn't sound hip-hop enough.
My only request is that it be broadened  because it's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for everything we just spoke about. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for a packaging Grammy. It's no reason because the conceptual nature of my cover and the way that it looked is a great idea for a compact disc. Usually people go all out and put 50 pictures and give you a suitcase full of stuff to win a packaging Grammy. But it's not really about the design of it itself. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for that. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for electronic and alternative and Rap Album of the year  because if we're pushing creativity and we're doing it get to be creative and to create new things  I don't know what's newer than what Vince Staples is doing. And that's my only conversation.

SOLUTION:
Positive