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].

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Carolyn Goodman ? Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman  did not mince any words when discussing Las Vegas massacre gunman Stephen Paddockâs actions  branding him a âmadman â a âscumbag â and more.
What did  she  say?
 Goodman   speaking with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Monday night  hurled insults at Paddock  who âso selfishlyâ took nearly 60 lives in the Las Vegas deadly mass shooting.
 She  added that âitâs been a very  very difficult time.â
 Goodman  lauded the efforts of local law enforcement  first responders  and health care providers for their brave actions in the aftermath of the incident.
âThey have done their utmost to save as many lives as possible  but the tragedy remains for all the people who donât know where their loved ones are â  Goodman  said.
 Goodman  later praised the Las Vegas community for donating blood  money  free rooms and more to the devastated community.
âThis has just been a tremendous bonding for us all as we come together â  Goodman  said. âAnd we just know that the sadness is that there probably a beautiful number of 59 new stars in the heavens and we are just tragically stricken by this.â
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Quentin Clark ? Dropbox disclosed in a public filing last week that  Quentin Clark   its SVP of engineering  product  and design  was paid a total compensation worth $34.6 million in 2017. That includes a prorated base salary of $130 000  a one-time signing bonus of $340 000  and company stock worth $34.1 million  which will vest over five years.
 Clark 's pay package last year is impressive given how Dropbox has hired a number of high-profile executives over the years  including COO Dennis Woodside.  Clark  is relatively little known outside of engineering circles and has maintained a low-profile despite a long engineering career that spans more than two decades.
Prior to joining Dropbox   Clark  held the chief technology officer and chief business officer roles at SAP.
But  Clark  spent the majority of  his  career at Microsoft.  He  spent nearly 20 years in various engineering roles  including as a vice president in charge of the company's database products. In  his  LinkedIn profile   Clark  describes  his  work at Microsoft as having managed "the SQL Server product and the broader data platform work " including Business Intelligence  Big Data products and the cloud data platform work in Azure.
 Clark  also worked on WinFS  a Microsoft project in the early 2000s that aimed to replace the file system in Windows with a more database-like file system. It never shipped  and some insiders blamed it for contributing to the delays that plagued Windows Vista. Bill Gates  then chief software architect  once said on Reddit that not shipping it was his biggest regret among unrealized products.
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kris Kobach ? President-elect Donald Trump and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in November 2016. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
Trumpâs commission was led by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach  who not only is the countryâs most prominent advocate of vote suppression  but also is an anti-immigration activist  which is an important part of this story. The White House issued a statement saying the president âhas asked the Department of Homeland Security to review [the commissionâs] initial findings and determine next courses of action.â
Where is the Trump administration heading now that the voter suppression commission is gone? We can get an idea from a system called Crosscheck that  Kobach  has promoted to states all over the country. That system flags anyone who has the same name and date of birth but is registered in more than one place as a possible instance of fraud.
You can immediately see the problem: There are going to be a huge number of people who share the same name and birthday  so people will get wrongly flagged constantly. Indeed  one analysis of the program found that Crosscheck risks eliminating huge numbers of registrations used to cast legitimate votes.  Kobach  sees the program as a model for what  he  wants to do nationally.
That brings us to the Department of Homeland Security. I need to stress that nobody knows exactly what theyâll be doing on this issue  because all we have are the somewhat vague statements from  Kobach  and the White House. But they have lists of immigrants and people visiting the country (like this one)  and those databases are almost certainly what  Kobach  is after.
[EX A]:
Negative