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Sentiment Classification Prompt for Reviews

Positive, Negative, Neutral, Mixed — overall-sentiment classification where the definitions resolve the "loved it BUT" reviews.

Overview

Sentiment looks easy until the real reviews arrive: "great product, terrible support" breaks naive positive/negative prompts. This setup classifies overall review sentiment with four labels whose definitions carry the resolution rules — Positive means satisfied overall even with minor gripes, Mixed means strong positives AND strong negatives with no overall winner — under Best Match ambiguity, because in sentiment something must always be chosen; an "Other" pile defeats the purpose. High/medium/low confidence flags the genuinely torn reviews for human reading.

Workflow

Classify overall, not per sentence
The rules say judge the whole text — sentence-level mood swings are exactly what the Mixed definition absorbs.
Mind the Positive/Mixed border
"Satisfied overall, even if minor gripes appear" — the word minor is the border. Calibrate it to your data.
Read the low-confidence pile
Best Match never refuses, so low confidence is your only signal that a review genuinely resisted labeling.

Why This Works

A Mixed label with a real definition stops the classifier from rounding torn reviews up or down
Overall-judgment rules prevent last-sentence bias
Best Match suits sentiment: a forced choice plus a confidence flag beats an opt-out pile

Best for

Review streams where "loved it BUT" is the median review
Teams burned by binary positive/negative classifiers
Dashboards that need a Mixed category to stay honest

Not for

Extracting the pros and cons themselves — that's the Extraction Prompt Generator
Aspect-level sentiment (shipping vs product vs support) — that's a multi-label taxonomy, not overall sentiment

Use cases

Labeling product reviews for dashboards and trend lines
Separating genuinely Mixed reviews from Positive-with-gripes
Flagging low-confidence sentiment calls for human reading

Customize This Resource

Opens this setup in Data Classification Prompt. Generate to get the full classification prompt — then adjust the labels, ambiguity mode, and confidence output.

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Prompt Template

TASK
Classify the overall sentiment of product reviews.
Assign exactly one of the labels defined below to the text in the input.

LABELS
- Positive: The reviewer is satisfied overall, even if minor gripes appear.
- Negative: The reviewer is dissatisfied overall, even if something is praised.
- Neutral: Factual or indifferent — no clear satisfaction signal either way.
- Mixed: Strong positives AND strong negatives with no overall winner.

CLASSIFICATION RULES
- Read the entire text before deciding — the deciding signal may come late.
- Judge by content and intent, not by tone, length, or formatting.
- Match the text against the definitions, not just the label names.
- Use only the labels defined above — never invent a new label.

EDGE CASE RULES
- If the text fits more than one label, choose the one matching its primary purpose — what the writer mainly wants.
- If two labels fit equally, prefer the more specific definition over the more general one.

AMBIGUITY POLICY
- Always return the closest label, even when the fit is imperfect.
- Never refuse to classify.

CONFIDENCE
- With each label, report a confidence level: high, medium, or low.
- high = the text unambiguously fits the definition; medium = a good fit with minor uncertainty; low = the best available choice among the labels.
- Confidence reflects your certainty about the fit — it is self-reported, not computed.

OUTPUT FORMAT
Return your classification as a single valid JSON object with a "label" key and a "confidence" key.

EXAMPLE OF A VALID RESPONSE
{
  "label": "Positive",
  "confidence": "high"
}

OUTPUT RULES
- Return only the JSON object — no text before or after it.
- Do not wrap the output in markdown code fences.
- Return the label text exactly as defined above — no paraphrasing, no abbreviations, no new labels.

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