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 Sam Boyd ? Hide caption Diane Askwyth leads cheers as protesters make their way to  Sam Boyd Stadium  for the Women's March "Power to the Polls" voter registration tour launch on Sunday  in Las Vegas  Nev. Previous Next Sam Morris/Getty Images
Hide caption Protesters carry signs as they make their way to  Sam Boyd Stadium  on Sunday. Previous Next Sam Morris/Getty Images
Hide caption An attendee holds a sign during the Women's March "Power to the Polls" voter registration tour launch at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Previous Next Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Sunday's event was not a march  organizers say  but a rally  beginning at 10 a.m. local time inside  the Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas . Officials tell Fadel that although the venue can hold 40 000  they expected roughly 17 000. The organizers say they are less concerned with crowd size than with spreading their message. Nearly two hours after doors opened  Fadel estimated that thousands â many in the movement's trademark pussyhats â had filed into  the stadium  under clear skies.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jacob Bilstein ? The California wildfires were still raging last fall as Jennifer Bilstein and her 15-year-old son inched their way down Highway 101  a two-hour drive in ordinary times that took four hours through the smoke-filled air and yellow sky. She was determined to get  Jacob  to  his  doctor's appointment on time.
It was  his  second visit to the adolescent gender clinic  where  Jacob - a  shy boy with pink cheeks  a cowlick and black oversize glasses - was being medically evaluated to begin taking testosterone.
 He  had already gone through puberty as a girl  an experience that made  him  conclude  he  had been born into the wrong gender. "I was always uncomfortable calling myself 'she' or 'her ' "  he  explained. "It made my skin crawl."
At 13   Jacob - then  called Samantha - had informed  his  mother  sending her the news in a Facebook message after being dropped off at school one morning in Ukiah  one of Northern California's iconic hippie towns.
As she spoke  her child studied his hands  legs swinging back and forth under the examining table. "But the reality is that  Jacob 's my child  and regardless of gender or whatever  my child always comes first in my life " she said. "And realistically  it's not about me. It's about Jake."
It is also one of the busiest  encompassing four disciplines: Medical  mental health  patient advocacy and legal services. Although surgery is not available at the center  its clinicians maintain close ties with local surgeons to whom they refer patients upon request. On the day that  Jacob  arrived for  his  appointment  the examining rooms were filled with 15 elementary schoolchildren  adolescents and teenagers who had traveled from as far away as Hawaii and Sweden and as nearby as the Bay Area. All were seeking a change in their physical sex characteristics to align with their gender identity.
 Family Photo Jacob Bilstein  went through puberty as a girl named Samantha.  Jacob Bilstein  went through puberty as a girl named Samantha. (Family Photo) (Family Photo)

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Myeshia Johnson Trump ? According to Roll Call  the White House sent an email with the subject line  "Condolence Letters Since 20 January 2017" to the Defense secretary's office on the evening of the day  Trump  said  he  had reached out to all the families of soldiers who had been killed.
 Trump 's contact with Gold Star families came under fire this week  after The Associated Press reached out to 43 families and got responses from 20  nine of whom said they had heard from  Trump  and nine of whom said they had not  despite his remark that he had called the families of "virtually everybody" who had died in the line of duty.
Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida  who was present during the phone call  told the Miami ABC affiliate WPLG on Tuesday that  Trump  had told Myeshia Johnson her husband "knew what he signed up for  but when it happens  it hurts anyway."
Wilson said she was riding in the car with Johnson — who was on her way to the airport to receive her husband's body — when  Trump  called. She then told MSNBC on Wednesday morning that the soldier's widow was "crying the whole time" and that when she hung up the phone  she looked at Wilson and said  "He didn't even remember his name."
Though  Trump  blasted Wilson's account as "totally fabricated " the soldier's mother confirmed to The Washington Post that the congresswoman's account was accurate  adding that  Trump  had "disrespected" her family.
As the controversy continued to unfold  Gold Star families came out en masse to dispute the president's claims. That included Chris Baldridge  whose son  Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge  died in Afghanistan in June. Baldridge told The Post that  Trump  had offered  him  a $25 000 check  but did not follow through.
"I could not believe  he  was saying that    and I wish I had  it  recorded because  the man  did say this " Baldridge said. " He  said  'No other president has ever done something like this ' but  he  said  'I'm going to do it.'"

SOLUTION:
Positive