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 George Papadopoulos ? The answer to that seemingly unimportant question is suddenly a key element of the deepening scandal surrounding the campaignâs contacts with Russia  following revelations that one member of the team  George Papadopoulos  communicated with Russians connected to the Kremlin. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said several times that the answer is one  implying that the foreign policy council was an unimportant body and  Papadopoulos  was a minor player in the campaign.
 Papadopoulos  admitted to special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigative team that  he  had ongoing contacts with Kremlin intermediaries during the campaign. The White House quickly downplayed the significance of the revelation last week  claiming that  Papadopoulos  was barely involved with the campaign. The campaign was certainly aware of  his  connections to Russia because  Papadopoulos  suggested using them to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a March 2016 meeting of the foreign policy team with Trump present. But  Sanders  has emphasized that that was itâthat the campaignâs foreign policy team  a group of volunteer advisers headed by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions  met only that one time.
âIâm telling you that  he  was a volunteer member of an advisory council that literally met one time â  Sanders  said during a press briefing on October 30.
But on Thursday  Page told the House Intelligence Committee that  he  spoke to Sessions at a dinner in Washington  DC  in June 2016 about an upcoming trip  he  was making to Russia. According to CNN  the dinner was a gathering of members of the foreign policy council. âA source familiar with the meeting told CNN that the encounter occurred at a dinner at the Capitol Hill Club  attended by members of the Trump national security team  including Sessions â the network reported. âNear the end of the dinner  Page approached Sessions to say hello and thanked the then-senator for the dinner  and Page also mentioned  he  was headed to Russia. Sessions didnât respond and moved on to the next person waiting to shake  his  hand  this source said.â

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Donald J. Trump ? "Wow "  Mr. Trump  wrote on Twitter  "Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for 'inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.'"
Wow  Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for âinappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.â But when will the top executives at NBC & Comcast be fired for putting out so much Fake News. Check out Andy Lackâs past! â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29  2017
Last October  in the final weeks of the presidential campaign  Summer Zervos claimed she had repeatedly been harassed by  Mr. Trump  when she was a contestant on  his  NBC show  "The Apprentice."
Earlier this fall  Zervos' attorney served  Mr. Trump  a subpoena to preserve "all documents concerning any accusations that were made during the campaign that he subjected any woman to unwanted sexual touching and/or sexually inappropriate behavior."
Throughout the campaign   then-candidate Trump  dismissed the allegations.
"The events never happened ... never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over  " Mr. Trump  said.
But  Mr. Trump  has not followed through on that threat. And one of  his  accusers told CBS News that she never believed  he  would sue.
"This was locker room talk  " Mr. Trump  has said.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Justin Townes Earle ? Justin Townes Earle  has a habit of doing things on  his  own terms. Last year   he  broke with convention in leaving Nashville for Omaha  Nebraska to cut  his  latest LP  the acclaimed Kids in the Street. This spring   he 's hitting the road for a fresh  34-date tour  which  he 'll be conducting all on  his  own in a solo acoustic format.
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 Earle  frequently performs by  himself   but the news is a break in its own way given that Kids in the Street was one of  his  most fleshed-out records  one that thrived on its full-band arrangements. The Music City native will nonetheless be right at home  considering  he 'll be playing the sorts of theaters and small clubs where  he 's most comfortable.
 He  begins  his  trek at Pitchfork Social in Salt Spring Island  British Columbia on May 6th and wraps things up six weeks later at the Crocodile in Seattle  Washington. Those two gigs are only 100 miles away from each other  but in between  Earle  loops around the country  hitting cities like St. Paul  Minnesota  Brooklyn  New York  and Austin  Texas before returning to the west coast.
The full list of Justin Townes Earle's spring tour dates:

SOLUTION:
Positive