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 Bernie Sanders ? "-LSB- B -RSB- ut we all named the Bernie Sanders spider ," Lily Sargeant , one of the students and a co-author of the paper , said in a statement . 
"We all have tremendous respect for Bernie . 
It is my hope that through naming that spider after Bernie we can remember the ideas that he has at this pivotal point in the life of our nation ." 
"-LSB- B -RSB- ut we all named the Bernie Sanders spider ," Lily Sargeant , one of the students and a co-author of the paper , said in a statement . 
"We all have tremendous respect for Bernie . 
Several newly discovered spider species have been named in honor of US Senator Bernie Sanders and other outspoken supporters of human rights and climate action .

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jackie Robinson ? (CNN) The President has excoriated football players who have joined a protest movement by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as unpatriotic. But the President is overlooking history -- which shows athletes now lauded as heroes  like  Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali   raising  their  voices (or taking a seat) in protests similar to Kaepernick's.
 Jackie Robinson   rightfully celebrated for showing enormous grace under pressure while breaking baseball's color line  refused to stand for the National Anthem after  his  playing days.
Jackie Robinson as a Brooklyn Dodger.
As  he  described in  his  1972 autobiography   Robinson -- like contemporary NFL players --  was protesting against institutional racism.  He  was expressing  his  feelings of alienation from America's system of racial apartheid.
 Robinson 's pugnacious brand of civil rights activism set the stage for succeeding generations of black athletes. Eleven-time NBA champion Bill Russell emerged as one of the most outspoken civil rights advocates of the 1960s  at a time when the city he played in  Boston  represented one of the most racially segregated cities in the North.
Above all  black American athletes are citizens  fathers  brothers  husbands and sons who have a right and responsibility to continue a long struggle for dignity exemplified by Jackie Robinson  Bill Russell and many others.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Gloria Allred ? Sitting across a boardroom table   Gloria Allred  looks exactly as  she  did during any one of the thousands of TV appearances  she 's made in the last 40 years. The red power suit ( she  has a closet full of them)  chunky gold jewelry  puckish smile â it's all the same. What appears different about the 76-year-old lawyer has nothing to do with  her  personally  and everything to do with the way society has  at last  begun to catch up with  her . Now the same perspective shift that changed Bill Cosby from a beloved TV dad to an accused rapist in the public consciousness  is casting the woman most responsible for making the accusations against him public in a different light too.  She 's been derided for years as a spotlight-seeking opportunist â and now  finally   Allred  is getting  her  due.
Seeing Allred  a new documentary which recently premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and began streaming on Netflix on February 9th  chronicles  her  career as pioneering civil rights lawyer  relentless advocate for gender equality and tireless champion for sexual harassment and abuse victims. The film traces virtually every aspect of  Allred 's life  from  her  birth in Philadelphia 76 years ago through to last yearâs Womenâs March on Washington. (Regrettably  it stops just short of capturing the activist in the thick of #MeToo  the movement she helped lay the groundwork for; ditto the Harvey Weinstein scandal that embroiled  Gloria  and  her  daughter  and the defeat of Roy Moore  which she helped engineer.) She has somehow managed to spend decades at the white-hot center of every polarizing national news story â from OJ Simpson to marriage equality â without ever once soliciting a client.
Rolling Stone spoke with  Allred  about  her  life   her  work   her  thoughts on the documentary ... and everything it missed.
It's insulting to think that sexual harassment is about shaking someone's hand. It's not â legally  that's not sexual harassment. Even if the person didnât consent to having their hand shaken. That doesnât meet the legal standard. So I think itâs insulting to suggest that. Itâs insulting to those who allege that they have been drugged and sexually assaulted by Mr. Cosby. In a way  it minimizes what theyâve said. So whether he's just trying to be funny â drugging and sexually assaulting someone is not funny ... if    in fact  he did  it . And the allegations by more than half a million women on #MeToo â thatâs not a laughing matter. It's not about shaking hands  that hashtag.

SOLUTION:
Positive