diff --git a/website/docs/api/data-formats.md b/website/docs/api/data-formats.md
index 53ca8a51d..1196d20af 100644
--- a/website/docs/api/data-formats.md
+++ b/website/docs/api/data-formats.md
@@ -451,9 +451,11 @@ doc = nlp("I'm pretty happy about that!")
 gold_dict = {"cats": {"POSITIVE": 1.0, "NEGATIVE": 0.0}}
 example = Example.from_dict(doc, gold_dict)
 
-# Training data for an Entity Linking component
+# Training data for an Entity Linking component (also requires entities & sentences)
 doc = nlp("Russ Cochran his reprints include EC Comics.")
-gold_dict = {"links": {(0, 12): {"Q7381115": 1.0, "Q2146908": 0.0}}}
+gold_dict = {"entities": [(0, 12, "PERSON")],
+             "links": {(0, 12): {"Q7381115": 1.0, "Q2146908": 0.0}},
+             "sent_starts": [1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1]}
 example = Example.from_dict(doc, gold_dict)
 ```