diff --git a/spacy/kb/kb.pyx b/spacy/kb/kb.pyx
index 3a4d3b4be..fa537edc9 100644
--- a/spacy/kb/kb.pyx
+++ b/spacy/kb/kb.pyx
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ cdef class KnowledgeBase:
 
     @classmethod
     def generate_from_disk(
-        cls: Type[_KBType], path: Union[str, Path], exclude: Iterable[str] = SimpleFrozenList(), **kwargs
+        cls: Type[_KBType], path: Union[str, Path], exclude: Iterable[str] = SimpleFrozenList()
     ) -> _KBType:
         """
         Factory method for generating KnowledgeBase subclass instance from file.
diff --git a/spacy/kb/kb_in_memory.pyx b/spacy/kb/kb_in_memory.pyx
index ddebc468d..2b245d76f 100644
--- a/spacy/kb/kb_in_memory.pyx
+++ b/spacy/kb/kb_in_memory.pyx
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ cdef class InMemoryLookupKB(KnowledgeBase):
 
     @classmethod
     def generate_from_disk(
-        cls, path: Union[str, Path], exclude: Iterable[str] = SimpleFrozenList(), **kwargs
+        cls, path: Union[str, Path], exclude: Iterable[str] = SimpleFrozenList()
     ) -> "InMemoryLookupKB":
         kb = InMemoryLookupKB(vocab=Vocab(strings=["."]), entity_vector_length=1)
         kb.from_disk(path)