TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Sidney Crosby is Negative . This report was published just after the Pittsburgh Penguins released a statement confirming their intent to visit the White House  and threw into stark relief  the comments of superstar Sidney Crosby  a native of Cole Harbour  Nova Scotia .
 His comments  came as Donald Trump attacked black athletes protesting police violence as "sons of bitches " declaring they should be fired for "disrespecting the flag." Following his comments players from all 28 NFL teams responded on Sunday by kneeling during the US anthem in mass solidarity. Faced with responding to athletes protesting police brutality and systemic racism  the Penguins sided with Trump. Any pretense that their intent to visit the White House was apolitical was rapidly debunked by Trump's gleeful tweet praising them as a "great team."
This wishful thinking disappeared when  Crosby  was found to have told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  he  saw the visit "as an opportunity." But  he  also said there had been "little to no discussion" in the locker room about the decision to go.
"I'm pretty aware of what's going on "  Crosby  told the Post-Gazette. "People have that right to not go  too. Nobody's saying they have to go. As a group  we decided to go. There hasn't really been a whole lot of discussion about it."
Sidney Crosby  a 30-year-old man and hometown hero in Nova Scotia  has been defended by apologists who suggested that as a Canadian  he simply did not understand race issues in America. Canada  they argue  does not have the same issues with race.
Racism is a problem in the NHL.  Sidney Crosby  the sport's biggest name   had a chance to speak  not only in support of  his  colleagues in football and basketball  but for players like Dustin Byfuglien.
This is a league where PK Subban played in front of Montreal fans who went to games in blackface  and where  he  was memorably accused of not playing the "white" way (a telling slip). A league where Evander Kane endured vicious racism in Winnipeg  the town famously called Canada's most racist city by Maclean's magazine. Where even Jarome Iginla—the model for many respectable  humble  black athletes—experienced racism severe enough that his mother spoke out about it. Wayne Simmonds  a descendent of African Nova Scotians  had a banana thrown at him on the ice.
Racism is a problem in the NHL.  Sidney Crosby  the sport's biggest name   had a chance to speak  not only in support of  his  colleagues in football and basketball  but for players like Dustin Byfuglien. Byfuglien was the only black player on the USA roster at the World Cup of Hockey  where coach John Tortorella threatened to bench any player who protested during the anthem. That tournament was played in Toronto  where Black Lives Matter protesters have taken numerous actions to protest police killings and carding of black people. The children of Toronto's significant population of African and Caribbean immigrants are the hockey players of the future  the future roommates of white players who will ride with them on the bus  buddy with them  and then let them know that when it comes down to it  their lives do not matter.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jennifer Lawrence is Neutral . Actress Jennifer Lawrence  has a “pretty good speech” prepared for when  she  meets President Donald Trump.
Though the actress has never met Trump  she revealed in an interview last year that she had once come close to crossing paths with the president at a concert.  Lawrence  told the UK’s Graham Norton Show that  she  had been at a concert and heard Trump was in attendance  and ordered  her  security team to find the then-presidential candidate.
“Because I was adamant on finding  him  and then making a video of me going  ‘Hey Trump  f*ck you!'”  she  said then.
 Lawrence  has been a vocal critic of Trump since well before the November 2016 presidential election.
And just a few days after the election   Lawrence  penned an essay urging liberals to become energized by Trump’s victory.
 Lawrence  announced this year that  she  would take a hiatus from acting.  Her  last film  the horror thriller mother!  marked the worst opening-weekend box office of  her  career and earned a rare “F” CinemaScore from audiences.
 The actress  has also begun working with Represent.us  an organization working to end political corruption.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jon Hamilton is Neutral . More than 30 000 brain scientists are in Washington  D.C.  this week attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting. One of the hot topics this year is mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia and autism.  NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton  has just come from the meeting to talk about some of what  he 's been seeing and hearing. Hi  John. Thanks for coming.
 JON HAMILTON   BYLINE: Hi.
 HAMILTON : Twenty years ago  I'd say it didn't contribute much  but things are really changing. And I was really surprised. I was going through the abstracts to this year's meeting  and there were nearly a thousand papers that mentioned depression. There were 500 that mentioned schizophrenia or autism. And just this morning  there was this study on how - looking at the brain tissue of people with obsessive compulsive disorder and how it's different.
MARTIN: That's NPR's science correspondent Jon Hamilton. Jon  thanks so much.

SOLUTION:
yes