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 Shinzo Abe is Positive . In an interview with NHK after polls closed   Abe  said  he  would push for an amendment.
“The ruling parties have been granted a majority ”  he  said. “I think it was the people’s voice telling us to make progress in politics and bring results with a stable political base.”
For a leader touting stability  the election had been a gamble.  Abe  had called the vote more than a year early  justifying it by saying that  he  needed a new mandate to deal with the threat posed by North Korea and to work through the details of a consumption-tax increase.
Many analysts said  Abe ’s motive was more opportunistic  however  with the prime minister taking advantage of the disarray of the Democratic Party  Japan’s main opposition party  and a small bump in  his  approval ratings after a number of scandals earlier this year.
The LDP has long dominated postwar Japanese politics. For many Japanese voters   Abe ’s leadership represents stability after years of short-lived governments before  he  returned to the prime minister’s office in 2012.
Some analysts suggest  however  that the weakness of the opposition may mask discontent with  Abe  and a lack of support for many of  his  policies. One exit poll cited by Kyodo showed 51 percent of voters saying they don’t trust  Abe   while 44.1 percent said they do.
Koichi Nakano  a professor of political science at Sophia University  said that the election exposed a lack of widespread support for  Abe ’s policies.  Abe  did not win “because people enthusiastically support  him  ” Nakano said. “People are disaffected and the opposition is divided.”
The bad weather may have also helped  Abe . The approaching Typhoon Lan left voters battling strong winds and heavy rain to make it to polling stations. On Monday  Kyodo estimated the final turnout at 53.69 percent  only marginally above a record low in the 2014 election.
Despite the rain  a number of voters could be found exiting a polling station in Tokyo’s cosmopolitan Roppongi neighborhood Sunday morning. Nobue Koizumi  a 67-year-old retired translator  said she had felt compelled to vote because of fears about  Abe ’s security policies.
“I don’t particularly support  Abe   but I do support” the LDP  said Hiroki Shinohara  a 54-year-old wholesaler at the Tsukiji fish market. “I feel it’s doing what’s right for Japan  and Japan needs it.”

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michael Moore is Neutral . President Donald Trump took on one his most vocal celebrity critics Saturday in a message posted to his Twitter account   calling filmmaker Michael Moore’s  anti-Trump summer Broadway show a “total bomb” that was “forced to close.”
“While not at all presidential I must point out that  the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway  was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad!” Trump tweeted Saturday evening about  Moore’s  show.
While not at all presidential I must point out that  the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway  was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 28  2017
Trump was  of course  referring to  Moore ’s Broadway show The Terms of My Surrender  a play in which the filmmaker took aim at Trump and his policies and often brought out celebrity guests to help bash the president. The play opened in late summer and ran for twelve weeks at New York City’s Belasco Theater.
The show was also mostly panned by critics  with one Los Angeles Times reviewer calling it a “support group for disheartened Democrats ” and one in which  Moore  casts  himself  both as a “victim of the right” and a “champion of all mankind.”
 Moore  fired back at the president Saturday in a series of tweets  explaining that the show had always been intended to play as a limited engagement and saying at least one senior member of Trump’s White House was a fan of the filmmaker’s.
“You must have my smash hit of a Broadway show confused with your presidency- which IS a total bomb and WILL indeed close early. NOT SAD ”  Moore  wrote in the first of eleven messages.
 Moore  also suggested that Trump was using the play as  his  “latest distraction” from  his  “crimes ” and called the president a “loser.”
“For now  at least  I know I still have one fan in the White House (thx for your unwavering support Jared!)”  he  concluded  his  tweets.
10) On Broadway  Donald  they call it a "LIMITED ENGAGEMENT" — just like we’re planning on making your presidency. — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 29  2017
11) For now  at least  I know I still have one fan in the White House (thx for your unwavering support  Jared!) pic.twitter.com/mTwLxW4KgR — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 29  2017
During one August performance   Moore  took the audience that had come to see him that night on a pair of double-decker buses to a protest outside Trump Tower  where he was joined by celebrities including Mark Ruffalo and Olivia Wilde.
 Moore  told the audience at the protest that the group was there to perform a “citizen’s arrest.”

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity LaVar Ball is Neutral . LaVar Ball  thinks  he  knows exactly why the Los Angeles Lakers are doing so poorly this year:  He  says it is because the players donât want to play for a young coach.
In an interview with ESPN   Ball  claimed  he  has it all figured out.
You can see theyâre not playing for Luke no more â  Ball  said from a spa resort in Birstonas  where he is staying while his two youngest sons  LiAngelo and LaMelo  get ready to make their professional debuts with Lithuanian team Prienu Vytautas. âLuke doesnât have control of the team no more. They donât want to play for him.
Despite that even Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma has admitted that the team is âplaying like garbage â  LaVar Ball  thinks the Lakers are âa good team.â
Instead of blaming the players  though   Ball  is blaming the coach:
As evidence of this   Ball  cites the fact that the Lakers donât high-five on the court. Ball doubled-down on his belief that Walton is too young  and even said that if Walton had top players such as LeBron James on his team  he wouldnât be able to coach them either.
âEven if you bring in a LeBron or a [Paul] George  he canât coach them guys â  Ball  said. âWhat is he gonna tell them? Heâs too young. He has no control.â

SOLUTION:
yes