TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Heather Nauert is Positive . "We would oppose any violence if that were to take place "  State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert  said in response to reports that this kind of coordination was being considered. "We hope our voices will be heard in a very strong fashion that we oppose violence on any side of this."
 She  was responding to a report that Iran and Iraq plan to seize control of the border crossings around a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq that is populated by a Kurdish ethnic minority that plays a crucial role in the U.S.-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State. The tensions have arisen because the Kurds voted in support of breaking away from the rest of Iraq to form their own state  despite opposition from Baghdad and the United States.
 Nauert  took a cautious approach to the diplomatic crisis. "The United States does not want to do anything that would inflame tensions  that's why I'm going to be very cautious with my words "  she  said during Thursday's briefing. "We will continue to offer our assistance to facilitate any dialogue if we are asked."
 Nauert  said  she  had not heard of a request for the United States to close its consulate in northern Iraq.
"Our relationship with the Kurds  in our view  will not change "  she  said.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Nikolas Cruz is Positive . Having breathlessly reported that  Florida gunman Nikolas Cruz  was a member of a white supremacist group  media outlets across the world failed to issue retractions when it emerged that this story was completely fake news.
The farce began when the Anti-Defamation League and Associated Press reported that a representative of the Republic of Florida Militia  a group that believes in a âwhite ethnostate â told them that  Cruz  was a member of the organization.
However  it quickly emerged that the story had begun as a prank on the notorious 4chan messaging board after members had convinced another individual  Jordan Jereb  to falsely tell the media that  Cruz  was an âaffiliateâ of the white supremacist group.
This was then picked up by the ADL and the Associated Press and reported as fact. In reality   Cruz  was never a member of the group  which is based in Tallahassee  about 430 miles away from where the shooting took place.
Law enforcement officials in Florida subsequently confirmed that they had found no connection between  Cruz  and the white supremacist group.
Almost 24 hours after it was confirmed that the original story about  Cruz  being a member of a white supremacist group was fake news  the AP  the ADL and others have failed to remove tweets and news stories that are completely erroneous.
Jonathan Greenblatt  the CEO of the ADL  still has a tweet at the top of his Twitter page which claims  âSpokesperson for white supremacist group Republic of Florida admitted to ADL that  Nikolas Cruz   alleged perpetrator of deadly Parkland school shooting  was a member & trained with his group  which seeks to create a âwhite ethnostate.â
BREAKING: Spokesperson for white supremacist group Republic of Florida admitted to ADL that  Nikolas Cruz   alleged perpetrator of deadly Parkland school shooting  was a member & trained with his group  which seeks to create a âwhite ethnostate.â More info: [Link] â Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) February 15  2018
Time Magazine still has a headline up which states  What to Know About Republic of Florida  the White Supremacist Militia That  Nikolas Cruz  Attended  except  Cruz  never attended the group at all.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kha is Neutral . Hanoi (AFP) – Kha’s wedding day looked perfect from the outside but she was hiding a dark secret: the 27-year-old was three months pregnant and her husband was fake  hired for a staged wedding to avoid the social stigma of becoming a single mother.
“My parents would have been the first to be filled with shame if I was pregnant and without a husband ”  Kha   barely showing  told AFP a month after the $1 500 fake marriage  which was quietly paid for by  her  baby’s father who is married to another woman.
The wedding-guests-for-hire business is growing in Vietnam — where some 70 percent of people over 15 are married — and not just among pregnant women like  Kha  looking for stand-in husbands.
 Kha  and  her  fake husband were never legally married — a formality often overshadowed by lavish wedding parties in Vietnam — but  she  is forever grateful to  him  for playing the part in front of  her  friends and relatives.
“I felt like I was about to drown but I grabbed a life jacket ” said  a smiling Kha  whose name has been changed to protect her identity .
 Her  parents were in on the secret but  Kha  plans to tell the rest of  her  family that  her  ‘husband’ left  her  — preferring to be a divorced single mother than having a baby out of wedlock.
 Kha  who is due around April   says  her  fake marriage finally freed  her  from  her  lie.
 She  said: “Hiding my pregnancy was so exhausting  but now I feel very confident about the present and the future.”

SOLUTION:
no