diff --git a/spacy/kb/kb.pyx b/spacy/kb/kb.pyx
index 189a070a2..2cb2314df 100644
--- a/spacy/kb/kb.pyx
+++ b/spacy/kb/kb.pyx
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from typing import Iterable, Iterator, Tuple, Union
 from cymem.cymem cimport Pool
 
 from ..errors import Errors
-from ..tokens import Span, SpanGroup
+from ..tokens import SpanGroup
 from ..util import SimpleFrozenList
 from .candidate import Candidate
 
diff --git a/spacy/kb/kb_in_memory.pyx b/spacy/kb/kb_in_memory.pyx
index af8de91e3..2f8179f35 100644
--- a/spacy/kb/kb_in_memory.pyx
+++ b/spacy/kb/kb_in_memory.pyx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from preshed.maps cimport PreshMap
 import warnings
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from ..tokens import Span, SpanGroup
+from ..tokens import SpanGroup
 
 from ..typedefs cimport hash_t