diff --git a/spacy/cli/train.py b/spacy/cli/train.py
index 3426dfd65..88b22b92b 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/train.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/train.py
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ def train(lang, output_dir, train_data, dev_data, n_iter=30, n_sents=0,
             components.append('parser')
         if not no_tagger:
             components.append('tagger')
-        if not no_entity:
+        if not no_entities:
             components.append('ner')
         _collate_best_model(meta, output_path, components)