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].

[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Devin Kelley ? On November 6 Breitbart News reported that  the gunman  Devin Kelley   passed a background check in 2016 to acquire  his  rifle. CNN quoted a law enforcement official who observed that  Kelley  âdidnât have a disqualifying criminal history when he filled out the background check paperwork at the storeâ in San Antonio.
Questions immediately aroseâhow did  Kelley  pass a background check  considering the fact that  he  had a domestic violence charge?
According to NPR   Kelley  was arrested in 2012 and âwas court-martialed for assaulting  his  then-wife and stepson.â  His  conviction in that case âdisqualified  him  from legally possessing a firearm.â  He  entered a plea deal for a lesser sentence  but one which was still enough to prohibit  him  from firearm possession under federal law. Nevertheless   his  arrest and conviction were not reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)  thus  he  was able to buy firearms.
NPRâs Tom Bowman said  âThis was mishandled by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico  where  Kelley  was serving when he was arrested. An investigation is now underway  and the Air Force is taking it very seriously  said the source.â
[A]: Neutral


[Q]: 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
[A]: Neutral


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Barton ? "I am announcing today that I will not seek reelection in 2018 â  Rep. Joe Barton  said in a Thursday statement. âTo the people of the 6th District  thank you for your support and friendship."
Before the messages were made public   Barton  had said  he  planned to run for an 18th term to the House.
But this week  another woman released online messages allegedly showing  Barton  steering the conversation toward sexual themes.
Kelly Canon  a Tea Party organizer in the Dallas suburb of Arlington  released a series of Facebook Messenger conversations with  Barton  from 2012 in which he asked things like if she was wearing panties.
First reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Wednesday  the revelation comes a week after  Barton  apologized for a nude photo of  him  that circulated on social media.
Canon later told The Associated Press that  she and Barton  exchanged online messages from around 2011 to 2015.  They  included  Barton  asking after midnight in June 2012 whether Canon was "wearing a tank top only ... and no panties."  The congressman  was married at the time to  his  second wife but is now twice divorced.
 Barton  told The Dallas Morning News on Thursday that people âlost faithâ in  him  over the situation.
"There are enough people who lost faith in  me  that itâs time to step aside and let there be a new voice for the 6th district in Washington  so I am not going to run for re-election "  Barton  said.
It began when an anonymous account on Twitter last week posted a censored photo of a nude man and suggested it was  Barton . The account also tweeted a screenshot of a text message from "Joe B" using strongly sexual language.
 Barton  apologized and suggested the photo was taken while  he  was separated from  his  wife and had consensual relationships with other women.
"While separated from my second wife  prior to the divorce  I had sexual relationships with other mature adult women "  Barton  said. "Each was consensual. Those relationships have ended.â
Some have defended  Barton   calling  him  a victim of ârevenge porn.â  The congressman  said last week the Capitol Police offered to launch an investigation into the release and  he  accepted the offer.
 Barton   who was first elected to Congress in 1984  is the vice-chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
[A]:
Negative