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 Tom Petty ? Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE  Tom Petty's  legendary music career dated back to the 1960s and included multiple bands along with solo work. USA TODAY
 Tom Petty  talks to the media at a Super Bowl press conference at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix on Jan. 31  2008. (Photo: Rob Schumacher  The Arizona Republic)
As with many musicians   Tom Petty 's music provides a soundtrack for many fans' lives.
In the case of  Petty   who died Monday night at 66  it's a literal soundtrack  too  as the singer and guitar player's tunes have enjoyed a life far beyond concerts  albums (more than 80 million sold) and radio play  elevating many films and TV shows over the past few decades.
 Petty  earned the ultimate stage  too  as  Tom Petty  and the Heartbreakers performed at the Super Bowl XLII halftime show  playing American Girl  I Won't Back Down  Free Fallin' and Runnin' Down a Dream.
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In a couple of classic films   Petty  songs are celebrated in the way many fans appreciate tunes: solo sing-along driving.
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 Tom Petty  and the Heartbreakers recorded the soundtrack for 1996's She's the One  which stars Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz.
 Petty  also made a memorable appearance on The Simpsons  a sign of pop culture resonance that ranks almost as high as a Super Bowl halftime show.
 He  joined music greats Mick Jagger  Keith Richards  Elvis Costello  Lenny Kravitz and Brian Setzer as they voiced themselves as instructors at a rock fantasy camp that Homer attends in the 2002 episode  'How I Spent My Strummer Vacation.'
 Petty  conducted a lyrics workshop that Homer and his friends didn't fully appreciate  a situation often encountered by true artists.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Stephen Gayle ? Stephen Gayle died Thursday night after Temple police officers who responded to a disturbance call tried to put him in handcuffs. A Temple Police Department spokeswoman said Friday that the Texas Department of Public Safety will investigate the death and that there's no indication the officers "acted outside the scope of their duties."
Temple officers responded to a disturbance complaint around 7:30 p.m. Thursday near an apartment complex. They encountered  Gayle   believing he was responsible for the disturbance  and said he was uncooperative and appeared intoxicated  according to a police release. During a struggle  the officers tried to handcuff  Gayle  and put  him  inside a police car  police said.
The Temple Daily Telegram reports that  Gayle 's family and people who witnessed the incident are questioning the account police have given. Witnesses who spoke to the newspaper said the officers  who were white  used excessive force to arrest  Gayle   who was black.
Wanda Nichols  a church pastor who lives in the neighborhood  said she saw  Gayle  walking down the street and yelling before police arrived. She said she thought  he  was trying to get the attention of a child who was practicing football nearby.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Hillary Clinton ? Tensions between Republicans and Democrats over the investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election intensified Sunday  with President Donald Trump demanding to know why his campaign is under federal scrutiny while his former opponent Hillary Clinton is not.
Democratic lawmakers mostly stayed out of the Sunday fray after a week in which  Clinton 's 2016 campaign came under fresh scrutiny. The campaign funded political opposition research into Trump that helped create a highly publicized "dossier" on the Republican candidate and fueled some allegations now under scrutiny by Mueller.
It's unclear how much the  Clinton  campaign and Democratic National Committee paid for the opposition research by Fusion GPS  a Washington  D.C.  firm that conducts investigations for private clients. The  Clinton  campaign paid $5.6 million in legal fees to a law firm from June 2015 to December 2016  according to campaign finance records  and the DNC paid the firm $3.6 million in "legal and compliance consulting'' since November 2015. It's impossible to tell from the filings how much of that work was for other legal matters and how much of it related to Fusion GPS.
Trump tweeted Sunday morning that the dossier  which he called " Clinton  made Fake Dossier " could have cost as much as $12 million  although he did not explain how he reached that number.
In April 2016  an attorney representing  Clinton 's presidential campaign and the DNC hired Fusion GPS  which then hired Steele. Brian Fallon  a former spokesman for the  Clinton  campaign  said he learned about Steele and the dossier after the election. People familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that the  Clinton  campaign and the DNC did not direct Steele's activities.

SOLUTION:
Negative