TASK DEFINITION: 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].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Eugene Meyer ? The buyer was  Eugene Meyer  a wealthy Republican who had recently resigned as governor of the Federal Reserve Board after 16 years in government posts .  Meyer  who died in 1959 at 83   was the father of Katharine Meyer Graham  who is today chairman of the board of The Washington Post Co. One of  his  grandchildren  Donald E. Graham  is now publisher of The Post.
Hamilton went inside the building to write a check for the additional $75 000  then left saying only that the new owner would continue to publish the paper.  Eugene Meyer's  identity as that new owner was not disclosed for 12 days more  until court confirmation of the sale.
Under the court order  the buyer was to pay $500 000 of the purchase price at once and the remainder in two equal yearly installments. Instead   Meyer  paid the total at once.  He  established The Washington Post Company with paid-in capital and surplus of $1 250 000  with  himself  as president   his  wife  Agnes Meyer  as vice president and Floyd R. Harrison  his right-hand man  as secretary-treasurer.
After the sale confirmation  Hamilton went to The Post building where he found  Meyer  already drafting an announcement of his ownership for Page 1 of the next morning's paper of June 13. It included this statement:
 Eugene Meyer 's gamble half a century ago has become one of America's great success stories. CAPTION: Picture 1  Conducting the auction was Vernon G. Owen with notebook. To his right was Eugene Meyer's lawyer  George Hamilton Jr.  wilt felt hat and handkerchief. By Arthur Ellis -- The Washington Post; Picture 2  The newsroom of The Washington Times-Herald was nearly empty one night in 1954 when the paper was bought by The Post. UP; Picture 3   Eugene Meyer  and his son-in-law Philip L. Graham look over the first edition of the combined Post and Times-Herald in 1954. Harris and Ewing; Picture 4  The Post's E Street building and other physical assets were worth perhaps $100 000.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Benjamin Netanyahu ? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  accompanied by  his  wife Sara cuts the ribbon during the opening ceremony for a bomb-proof emergency room in a hospital in Ashkelon  Israel  Tuesday  Feb. 20  2018. (Tsafrir Abayov/Associated Press)
JERUSALEM â  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  is fighting for  his  political life as a dizzying array of scandals has engulfed  him    his  family and  his  inner circle.
Police last week announced they have sufficient evidence to indict  Netanyahu  for bribery  fraud and breach of trust in two separate cases. And this week  a new case emerged that threatens to be the most damaging of all  after one of his closest confidants agreed to testify against him in an influence-peddling scandal.
 Netanyahu  and  his  wife  Sara  have long been saddled with a penchant for expensive tastes and questionable use of public funds.  Netanyahu  has denied all wrongdoing and accuses the media of orchestrating a campaign aimed at ousting him from office.
But with those closest to him under intense police and public scrutiny  and his typically loyal political allies suddenly turning silent   Netanyahu  faces the stiffest challenge yet to  his  lengthy rule.
Police have recommended indicting  Netanyahu  over accepting nearly $300 000 in gifts from Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer. Police say that in return for lavish gifts that included jewelry  expensive cigars and champagne   Netanyahu  had operated on Milchanâs behalf on U.S. visa matters  tried to legislate a generous tax break for  him  and sought to promote  his  interests in the Israeli media market.
Police have not commented on what Packer may have received  and  Netanyahu  has said everything  he  received were gifts from friends. Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit  a  Netanyahu  appointee  will make the final decision on whether to file charges â a process that is expected to take several months.
Police have also recommended indicting  Netanyahu  for supposedly offering a newspaper publisher legislation that would weaken  his  paperâs main rival in return for more favorable coverage.  Netanyahu  reportedly was recorded asking Arnon Mozes  the publisher of the Yediot Ahronot daily  for positive coverage in exchange for helping to weaken Israel Hayom  a free pro-Netanyahu newspaper that had cut into Yediotâs business.
Israel Hayom is financed by  Netanyahuâs  American billionaire friend Sheldon Adelson and largely serves as the prime ministerâs mouthpiece.  Netanyahu  has noted that a proposed law to weaken Israel Hayom never passed  and this week said  he  had even dissolved  his  coalition and called a new election in 2015 because of  his  opposition to the proposal.  The attorney general  will have to rule on this case as well.
This week two close  Netanyahu  confidants were arrested on suspicion of promoting regulation worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Israelâs Bezeq telecom company. In return  Bezeqâs popular news site  Walla  allegedly provided favorable coverage of  Netanyahu  and  his  family. Nir Hefetz  a former  Netanyahu  family spokesman  and Shlomo Filber  the former director of the Communications Ministry under  Netanyahu   are in custody as well as Bezeqâs controlling shareholder Shaul Elovitch  along with his wife  son and other top Bezeq executives.
Former journalists at the Walla news site have attested to being pressured to refrain from negative reporting of  Netanyahu .  Netanyahu   who held the communications portfolio until last year  has not yet been named as a suspect in the case but is expected to be questioned. Filber has reportedly agreed to turn state witness against  Netanyahu  in return for a lesser sentence.
 Netanyahu  has not been named as a suspect  but some of  his  closest associates have been implicated in probe related to a possible conflict of interest involving a $2 billion purchase of German submarines.  Netanyahu âs personal attorney  who is also  his  cousin  represented the German firm involved and is suspected of using  his  influence over the prime minister in return for a hefty cut of the deal.
As if  Netanyahu  didnât have enough problems  police said Tuesday that Hefetz  his former media adviser  is suspected of trying to bribe a judge in exchange for dropping a corruption case against the Israeli leaderâs wife. Hefetz is suspected of suggesting  through a middleman  to Judge Hila Gerstel in 2015 that she could be appointed attorney general if she dismissed a pending case against Sara Netanyahuâs excessive household spending.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mike Kinsch ? Mike Kinsch  hopped a fence last year and sneaked into the abandoned Edgewater Medical Center.
 He  wore a mask to protect  himself  from air thickened by two decades of decay. As paint chips crunched beneath  his  boots   Kinsch  strolled the dark hallways of the former hospital where Hillary Clinton and John Wayne Gacy were born.  Kinsch  said  he  found discarded desks  old photos and even prescription drugs.
âItâs really about exploring your own curiosity â  Kinsch  said.
Even well-prepared explorers face danger  however.  Kinsch  said the Edgewater hospital's basement is flooded and  during a return trip in the winter   he  had to crawl over thin ice.
âItâs a scary experience (because) thereâs 5 feet of water "  he  said. âYou donât know whatâs in the water.â
âI was climbing up to get up to it  and the steps of the building were collapsing below my feet  so I couldn't go down â  he  recalled. âThese places are closed for a reason  because they aren't safe. So it comes with the territory.â

SOLUTION:
Neutral