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].

[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ed Gillespie ? Ed Gillespie   left  is the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia;  Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam  is the Democratic candidate. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate  Ed Gillespie  started to close a financial gap with Democratic rival Ralph Northam in October  new filings show.
 Gillespie  raised $9.7 million between Oct. 1 and Oct. 26  while  Northam  pulled in nearly $11 million  according to records compiled Tuesday by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP).
The late flood of campaign money is unprecedented in modern Virginia history  according to VPAP. Together  Gillespie and  Northam  raised almost twice what the gubernatorial contenders collected in the same period four years ago.
 Northam   the stateâs lieutenant governor  also significantly outspent  Gillespie  in October  $15 million to $10.7 million. Doing so meant losing the 2-to-1 cash advantage he had over  Gillespie  since the summer.
With 12 days before Election Day   Northam  had $1.7 million left in campaign accounts to  Gillespie âs $1.4 million. Libertarian candidate Cliff Hyra raised $11 000 in the October period  ending with about $5 000 on hand.
Republican Ed Gillespie and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam are running in this year's closely watched race for Virginia governor. (Claritza Jimenez/The Washington Post)
The Republican Governors Association on Monday gave $2.8 million to  Gillespie âs campaign â the largest single donation to a gubernatorial candidate in recent memory  according to VPAP.
The tightening of the money race comes as most polls show Northam with a slight lead or in a dead heat with  Gillespie   a longtime GOP operative. Virginiaâs governorâs race is widely viewed as a test of politics in the era of President Trump and a hint of whatâs to come in next yearâs midterm elections.
 Gillespie  has been airing hard-edge ads seeking to tie Northam to MS-13 gang violence and a sex offender who briefly got his rights restored. Northam countered with a commercial blasting  Gillespie âs ads as âfalse attacksâ and âdespicable â while the Latino Victory Fund released a controversial commercial featuring a  Gillespie  supporter in a pickup truck chasing a group of minority children.
 Gillespie âs earlier fundraising troubles raised questions about why a well-connected former head of the Republican National Committee â and a lobbyist and consultant for Fortune 500 companies â wasnât able to keep up.
In the October filing period  the Republican Governors Association poured $4.75 million into  Gillespie âs bid  nearly half his haul. He also received $250 000 from Marlene Ricketts  a conservative donor who bankrolled an effort to stop Trump from securing the GOP nomination. Investment banker and GOP donor Thomas Saunders and Haulover Creek Development Co. each pitched in $100 000.
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jay Asher ? Author Jay Asher  who wrote the novel âThirteen Reasons Whyâ that was later adapted into a Netflix original series  was reportedly expelled from the Society of Childrenâs Book Writers and Illustrators late last year after allegations that  he  sexually harassed women in the group.
Executive director of the group Lin Oliver told BuzzFeed that  Asher âs membership was terminated after an investigation into anonymous email complaints about  his  behavior. She did not say how many complaints there were against  Asher  or when  he  had been removed specifically.
âAfter we investigated  we felt that terminating  his  membership was the proper course of action â Oliver told BuzzFeed on Monday.
 Asher   however  told BuzzFeed  he  left the organization on  his  own and that  he  had been harassed by unspecified individuals there for âclose to 10 yearsâ and âcould not deal with it anymore.â
 Asher  also claims the SCBWI told  him  at the time that the emails âshowed nothing â BuzzFeed reported.
 Asher âs removal had not come up publicly until Sunday when anonymous comments naming  him  as a sexual harasser were posted in response to an article published in the School Library Journal about sexual harassment in the childrenâs publishing industry  BuzzFeed reported.
The article itself did not name  Asher   Vanity Fair pointed out. No specific details about actions by  Asher  were given.
[A]: Neutral


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi ? Under the terms of his release from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds in August  Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi cannot leave Tripoli or change his address and must keep in regular contact with East Renfrewshire Council.
 They were unable to contact the Libyan on Tuesday  while The Times newspaper could not track him down at either his house or the hospital where the terminal prostate cancer sufferer has had treatment.
 "We have now spoken to Mr Megrahi  who is in his house. There is no cause for alarm  he is in his house " said a spokesman for East Renfrewshire Council in western Scotland.
 "He wasn't able to speak to us yesterday but he was able to do so today. We have spoken to him and we don't have any concerns. He is definitely at home in Tripoli."
 The spokesman said that if staff had been unable to contact Megrahi this time  they would have reported the situation to the Scottish government.
 The council is next due to speak to Megrahi next Tuesday.
 Megrahi is the only person convicted over the December 1988 bombing of a New York-bound Pan Am Boeing 747 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie  which killed 270 people.
 He was freed on August 20 after doctors said he had only three months to live  and returned to a hero's welcome in Libya  angering relatives of those killed.
 His release also caused tensions between Britain  the devolved Scottish government and the United States and sparked questions about London's growing trade relationship with Tripoli.
[A]:
Positive