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 Jeremy Corbyn is Neutral . Jeremy Corbyn to declare in speech "Labour is ready" for government.
LONDON â  Jeremy Corbyn  will tell activists Labour "is ready for government" and that it is a "government in waiting" in his speech to close the party's conference on Wednesday.
Following rifts in the cabinet over how to deal with Brexit becoming public in recent weeks   Corbyn  will say: "The Tories are more interested in posturing for personal advantage than in getting the best deal for Britain. Never has the national interest been so ill-served on such a vital issue. If there were no other reason for the Tories to go  their self-interested Brexit bungling would be reason enough.
 Corbyn  will challenge the Conservative government to "pull yourself together" after Theresa May's Florence speech failed to break the stalemate in Brexit negotiations  with European Council president Donald Tusk saying on Tuesday that there has not been "sufficient progress" to allow talks to advance.
In his keynote speech   Corbyn  will say: "Yes  we didnât do quite well enough and we remain in opposition for now. But we have become a government-in-waiting.
 Corbyn  will say: "The disregard for rampant inequality  the hollowing out of our public services  the disdain for the powerless and the poor have made our society more brutal and less caring.
A Labour source said on Tuesday that  Corbyn  will also use his conference speech to announce details of a number of new policies.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Sarah Huckabee Sanders is Positive . Sarah Huckabee Sanders  lied about baking a chocolate pecan pie for Thanksgiving. The White House press secretary further ruined the national holiday by humiliating the press corps by asking them why they are grateful. While none of this is true   attacking Sanders  personally has become the media’s latest and lowest method of attacking President Trump.
“Piegate” started after  Sanders  shared a picture on Thursday of a chocolate pecan pie with the caption   “I dont cook much these days  but managed this Chocolate Pecan Pie for Thanksgiving at the family farm!” April Ryan  the American Urban Radio Networks correspondent and a CNN political analyst  tweeted at  Sanders  the next day: “Show it to us on a table.” She then added  “I am not trying to be funny but folks are already saying #piegate and #fakepie Show it to us on the table with folks eating it and a pic of you cooking it.” Ryan’s insinuation that  Sanders  used a stock photo launched a viral debate involving every nook and cranny of the crust and glazed pecan top of the pie.
 Sanders  responded to the second tweet with grace: “Don’t worry @AprilDRyan because I’m nice I’ll bake one for  you  next week ;-) #RealPie #FakeNews.”
Ryan’s fake news was so influential that other liberal media kept the rolling pin going. On Saturday  MSNBC’s Joy Reid  said she “cannot verify whether or not  Sanders  baked that pie.” Did anyone at MSNBC call the White House and ask? Fox News’s Todd Stearns did  and  Sanders  told him  “Of course I made the pie.” She added that  “I make it for every holiday family gathering and have for years.”
 Sanders  was also attacked for asking reporters  in a pre-Thanksgiving briefing  to state what they were thankful for before asking their questions.  Sanders  started by saying she was thankful for  among other things  the people in the room  her faith and family. Reporters almost all responded in kind  which gave the usually antagonistic briefing room a kinder atmosphere.
 Sanders  is a practicing Christian  who prays before she does the daily briefing  so one would think she would be given the benefit of the doubt in understanding this as a good-will effort to transcend partisanship.
Piling on  his colleague Kathleen Parker said  Sanders ’s request was “candy-coating her usual condescension with faux fellowship.” Parker used the rest of her column to criticize every aspect of  Sanders ’s professional skills and recommended that she be replaced with — naturally — a journalist.
The Thanksgiving nastiness wasn’t even the lowest the media sank in its attacks on  Sanders .
Earlier this month  Los Angeles Times writer David Horsey began his piece: “ Sarah Huckabee Sanders  does not look like the kind of woman Donald Trump would choose as  his  chief spokesperson.”  He  went on to say  she  “looks more like a slightly chunky soccer mom who organizes snacks for the kids’ games.”
The backlash to this piece  especially the reference to  Sanders ’s weight  was so swift that the Times deleted all of it from the column and added an apology from the author. This is not standard procedure in newspapers. The as-written text normally stays in the piece  unless factually incorrect. There’s no way the Times did this because it cares about Trump supporters. It cares about female readership. And we don’t like men judging our weight and appearance at work.
The media hostility toward  Sanders  really has nothing to do with her but stems from its barely concealed hatred for Trump. So they want a Trump spokesperson to perform badly. But  Sanders  is effective in the way she does not give an inch in defense of the president  while keeping her cool and appearing unfazed. That means she gives the media few sound bites to nourish liberal cable shows and late-night television. She ducks and dodges when needed  which is part of the job.
 Sanders  has thick skin and a strong faith. None of these personal attacks appear to get to her  no matter how low and mean. She knows her purpose is to defend and promote the policies of the president and the administration. At some point  the elite pundit class in the media will realize that in attacking  Sanders   they are the ones who end up looking bad.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Brendan Dassey is Neutral . CLOSE  Brendan Dassey's  case continues through the justice system.  Alison Dirr/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Brendan Dassey  appears in court April 16  2007  at the Manitowoc County Courthouse in Manitowoc. (Photo: Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
APPLETON  Wis. —  Brendan Dassey 's attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear  his  appeal in the Teresa Halbach murder.
The petition for a writ of certiorari — a legal brief asking the high court to hear  his  case — raises “crucial issues” with relevance far beyond  Dassey ’s case  the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth said in a statement Tuesday.
“Too many courts around the country  for many years  have been misapplying or even ignoring the Supreme Court’s instructions that confessions from mentally impaired kids like  Brendan Dassey  must be examined with the greatest care — and that interrogation tactics which may not be coercive when applied to an adult can overwhelm children and the mentally impaired ” Steven Drizin  one of  Dassey ’s attorneys from CWCY  said in the statement. “Meanwhile  DNA evidence has uncovered dozens of cases involving false confessions from children. The time is now for the Court to reaffirm this country’s commitment to protecting kids in the interrogation room.”
CLOSE A federal judge on Monday ordered  Brendan Dassey  be released from prison as  he  awaits a possible retrial Time
Dassey’s case has been moving through the legal system in fits and starts. In 2016  it appeared that  he  was on the verge of release with  his  conviction overturned on the grounds that it was involuntary — only to have the Seventh Circuit reinstate it.
 Dassey  was 16 when  he  confessed to participating in Halbach's murder.  His  attorneys say the confession was clearly coerced by detectives  while the state contends that the questioning was proper and conformed to the law.
DOCUMENT:  Dassey 's petition for writ of certiorari
That court "gave those attributes the same glancing treatment as other facts it deemed equally relevant to voluntariness — like the upholstery on the couch  Dassey  sat on
during questioning " his attorneys wrote. "Under an actual 'evaluation '  Dassey ’s confession would unquestionably be deemed involuntary  but because of the state court’s disregard of that precedent  this juvenile may spend the rest of  his  life in prison."

SOLUTION:
yes