diff --git a/spacy/gold/gold_io.pyx b/spacy/gold/gold_io.pyx
index 8aa5f4017..83208ad85 100644
--- a/spacy/gold/gold_io.pyx
+++ b/spacy/gold/gold_io.pyx
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def read_json_file(loc, docs_filter=None, limit=None):
         for doc in json_iterate(loc):
             if docs_filter is not None and not docs_filter(doc):
                 continue
-            for json_data in json_to_examples(doc):
+            for json_data in json_to_annotations(doc):
                 yield json_data