diff --git a/spacy/training/corpus.py b/spacy/training/corpus.py
index 6037c15e3..5cc2733a5 100644
--- a/spacy/training/corpus.py
+++ b/spacy/training/corpus.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def create_plain_text_reader(
     path: Optional[Path],
     min_length: int = 0,
     max_length: int = 0,
-) -> Callable[["Language"], Iterable[Doc]]:
+) -> Callable[["Language"], Iterable[Example]]:
     """Iterate Example objects from a file or directory of plain text
     UTF-8 files with one line per doc.