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 Kirstjen Nielsen ? Deputy White House Chief of Staff Kirstjen Nielsen has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to oversee the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
 Nielsen   a former Homeland Security official nominated by President Trump  was confirmed by the Senate in a 62-37 vote on Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that  Nielsen  understands the department's daily operations due to her previous experience and is ready to lead on her first day.
Meanwhile  Democrats said  Nielsen  lacks the experience required to run a major agency with 240 000 employees. They also cited concerns about possible White House interference in a recent DHS decision to send home thousands of Nicaraguans that have long been granted U.S. protection.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Will Smith ? âGrowing up and trying to figure out your life â¦ while people feel like they have some sort of entitlement to know whatâs going on  is absolutely  excruciatingly terrible â and the only way to get over  it   is to go into  it  â she explained.
âYou canât change your face. You canât change your parents. You canât change any of those things. So I feel like most kids like me end up going down a spiral of depression ... When youâre born into  it   there are two choices that you have; Iâm either going to try to go into  it  completely and help from the inside  or â¦ no one is going to know where I am â¦ and Iâm really going to take myself completely out of the eye of soeciety. Thereâs really no in-between.â
Willow Smith  17  is the daughter of  Will Smith  and Jada Pinkett Smith. She also has an older brother  Jaden  who grew up in the eye of the public.
 Will Smith  learned this after daughter Willow shaved her head
Willow Smith is the daughter of Jada Pinkett Smith and  Will Smith . (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
 Will  Smith  the longtime actor  spoke of raising  his  daughter in an interview earlier this year.
 He  said when she shaved her famous âWhip My Hairâ hair   he  learned an important lesson.
 Jaden Smith  says  he  plans to disappear in 10 years

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Martin Luther ? Itâs always the anniversary of something or other. In November  we have the Russian Revolution and the Balfour Declaration  and this week marks the 500th year since  Martin Luther  challenged the Catholic Church with  his  95 theses. Given the loopy Zeitgeist of our times  I should rush into the street and mark the occasion by defacing Protestant churches with the customary red paint of protest. Luther  after all  was more than the creator of Protestantism. He was also a rotten anti-Semite.
But does  Luther  also deserve a splash of red? The evidence is pretty shocking  not to mention definitive. In 1543   he  published âOn the Jews and Their Lies â in which  he  called my ancestors âbase and whoring peopleâ full of the âdevilâs feces . . . they wallow in like swine.â
 He  had all sorts of ideas for what to do with the Jews  including the wholesale liquidation of their synagogues  even homes  and a ban on the teaching of their rabbis âon pain of loss of life and limb.â
To be sure  Lutherâs Jew-hatred was typical for the time  but  Luther himself  was hardly typical.  He  was a powerful  colloquial writer  and  his  words surely had some effect.  He  was the founder of a church  or a movement  that now numbers nearly 1 billion.
But more pertinently   he  provided a religious imprimatur to German anti-Semitism  which culminated in the Holocaust.  Luther  was often cited by the Nazis  but it would be wrong to blame  him  alone for the murder of 6 million souls.
As far as Iâm concerned   Luther  is a flawed figure. I can appreciate â even applaud â  his  reforms  but they mean little to  me . Nevertheless  I spare  him  the red paint because I know  his  Jew-hatred is hugely negligible compared with the Reformation  he  initiated and  not insignificantly  the role  he  played in encouraging literacy.  He  wrote in German  not Latin  and like the Hebrews  he  so despised   he  interposed no one between man and God. One had to read the Bible.
I pick and choose  my symbolic can of red paint always at the ready. But when it comes to those Confederate generals  they unambiguously stand for slavery  racism and the vile nostalgia for the so-called Lost Cause that prompted the erection of so many memorials. I cherish my Bach  feel bully about T.R. and acknowledge the immense importance of Martin Luther. He did more good than bad.

SOLUTION:
Neutral