Given a sentence and an entity, the task is to select the authors sentiment towards the enity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the sentence expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the sentence 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 sentence expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Nouri Kamal al-Maliki ?  Military experts anticipate more violence in the days ahead. Maliki's effort to capitalize on Iraq's latent anti-Americanism and to extol the abilities of his troops is a risky strategy. If it turns out that Iraqi troops cannot control the violence  al-Maliki will be vulnerable to criticism from rivals -- both if he has to ask the Americans to return but also if he fails to enforce security without them.
Neutral

What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity LeBron James ? On one side of the NBA ledger  the 11-3 defending champions have won seven consecutive games by an average of 19.8 points while boasting the leagueâs best offense (116.2 points scored per 100 possessions) and the 7th-best defense (101.8 points allowed per 100). On the other  where the revamped Cavaliers have been working in seven new players while waiting for new point guard Isaiah Thomas to recover from his hip injury and make his debut  the 7-7 Cavs have been the leagueâs worst defensive squad by a long shot (111.1 points allowed per 100; Dallas is 29th at 108.7) while leaning ever-so heavily on LeBron James.
Neutral

What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Justin Timberlake ?  Justin Timberlake  performs at the Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival on Saturday  Sept. 23  2017  in Franklin  Tenn. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Neutral