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].

Input: Consider Input: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rand Paul ? Kentucky Senator Rand Paul  said on Sunday that  he âs not sure if President Trump will seek re-election at this time.
Talking to MSNBCâs Kasie Hunt on Sunday   Paul  was asked if a 2020 Republican primary was on the horizon.  Paul  said âno one can stop primaries from happening and there could well be a primary that happens â but added that a Trump re-election attempts would have to be signaled for first.
Thing is   Paul  isnât sure â at least at the time â whether or not Trump is wanting a second term.
âBefore you even get to that  you need to know  is President Trump running for reelection? I think you wonât know that until you get into sort of â second  third year of his presidency â said  Paul .
 Paul  said  he  doesnât seem  himself  supporting anyone else but Trump at this time  noting that Trump has repealed regulations for the first time in 20 years  has a very conservative cabinet  and may get a couple more Supreme Court appointees out of  his  run.
âSo I see the glass as half full. Doesnât mean I agree with  him  on everything â  Paul  said.
 Paul  said that one issue would tempt  Paul  away from Trump  should another candidate rise against  him .
âYou know  there would be people that â if we could end the Afghan war  thatâs who I would support. But I donât think thatâs going to be an alternative to President Trump â said  Paul .

Output: Neutral


Input: Consider Input: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Deborah Rutter ? âThe Honors are the greatest weekend of the year  and it is also the bane of our existence  â Deborah Rutter  said with a laugh. For the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  the annual Kennedy Center Honors  airing on CBS on Dec. 26 and honoring dancer Carmen de Lavallade  rapper LL Cool J  television producer and writer Norman Lear and singers Gloria Estefan and Lionel Richie  is a welcome national spotlight on the memorial to the late president. But thatâs all anyone seems to know about the the white jewel box on the Potomac.
âWe really like to think about the other 364 days of the year  and all of the programming that happens on those days â  Rutter  told me in the latest episode of âCape Up.â âWhat I love about being here at the nationâs cultural center is that we have really a mandate to welcome all of the performing arts. It is not just a performing arts center for one assumed art form or another.â
I bet you didnât know that hip hop was one of those art forms at the Kennedy Center and that Q-Tip is its artistic director. âThis is a first â  Rutter  said. âAnd as far as I know  there is no other artistic director for hip-hop â¦ anywhere in probably the world. And weâre very proud to have Q-Tip here leading  guiding and inspiring us.â
While she didnât need much convincing   Rutter  allowed that there could be others who might â for fear of what it could mean for the other arts. âJust because we are bringing in more programming that includes hip-hop artists  it does not mean that weâre doing less dance or less international programming or less of the National Symphony Orchestra â she said. âIt just means that weâre doing more  that we have thrown open the doors of the Kennedy Center  and we are ensuring that all are welcome here.â
 Deborah Rutter   president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  talks with The Postâs Jonathan Capehart on the âCape Upâ podcast on Nov. 28 in her office at the Kennedy Center. (Jonathan Capehart/The Washington Post)
There are nine performance spaces at the Kennedy Center that are in use all year. In addition to the orchestra and  the Washington National Opera  Rutter  noted the 46-year-old institution has âa magnificent  world-recognized ballet season. We have contemporary dance  we have jazz  we have a huge jazz series  chamber music  recitals  comedy  international programming.â
Listen to the podcast to hear  Rutter  talk further about the work of the Kennedy Center and how it fits into the cultural life of Washington.  She  goes into what it is like to be the local performing arts center for members of Congress  foreign diplomats and âquite a number of justices from the Supreme Court.â But  Rutter  insists none of those constituencies tries to exert influence over programming.
âHere at the center we have no limits on what we could present â  Rutter  told me. âThe problems I always describe is how to say no  when to say no  and how to not be really  truly overwhelmed by the extraordinary limitless richness of what happens here.â

Output: Neutral


Input: Consider Input: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rex Tillerson ? BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi defended the role of an Iranian-backed paramilitary force at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday in Baghdad.
 U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ( 2-L) listens as Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (C) speaks during their meeting in Baghdad  Iraq October 23  2017. REUTERS/Alex Brandon/Pool
In his opening remarks at the meeting with  Tillerson   Abadi said Popular Mobilisation âis part of the Iraqi institutions â rejecting accusations that it is acting as an Iranian proxy.
 Tillerson  visited Iraq a day after a rare joint meeting with Abadi and Saudi Arabiaâs King Salman in the Saudi capital  Riyadh.
At his meeting with Abadi in Baghdad   Tillerson  urged the Iraqi government and Masoud Barzaniâs Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil to resolve their conflict on Kurdish self-determination and disputed territories through dialogue.
âWe are concerned and a bit sad  â Tillerson  said. âWe have friends in Baghdad and friends in Erbil  and we encourage all parties to enter into discussion ... and all differences can be addressed.â
âIranian militias that are in Iraq  now that the fight against Daesh and ISIS is coming to a close  those militias need to go home  â Tillerson  said on Sunday in Saudi Arabia.
One of the closest groups to Iran within Popular Mobilisation  Asaib Ahl al-Haq  reacted to  Tillerson âs comment by saying it would be Americans who will be forced to leave Iraq.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) listens as Iraq's President Fuad Masum (R) speaks during their meeting in Baghdad  Iraq October 23  2017. REUTERS/Alex Brandon/Pool


Output: Positive