diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/entity_linker.py b/spacy/pipeline/entity_linker.py
index 286b6b45f..6fe322b62 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/entity_linker.py
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/entity_linker.py
@@ -123,8 +123,7 @@ def make_entity_linker(
             from spacy_legacy.components.entity_linker import EntityLinker_v1
         except:
             raise ImportError(
-                """In order to use v1 of the EntityLinker, you must use
-                    spacy-legacy>=3.0.12."""
+                "In order to use v1 of the EntityLinker, you must use spacy-legacy>=3.0.12."
             )
         # The only difference in arguments here is that use_gold_ents and threshold aren't available.
         return EntityLinker_v1(
diff --git a/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_entity_linker.py b/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_entity_linker.py
index 5ddf4cac8..506530591 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_entity_linker.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/pipeline/test_entity_linker.py
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ from spacy.training import Example
 from spacy.util import ensure_path
 from spacy.vocab import Vocab
 
-from spacy_legacy.components.entity_linker import EntityLinker_v1
-
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def nlp():
@@ -998,6 +996,8 @@ def test_scorer_links():
 )
 # fmt: on
 def test_legacy_architectures(name, config):
+    from spacy_legacy.components.entity_linker import EntityLinker_v1
+
     # Ensure that the legacy architectures still work
     vector_length = 3
     nlp = English()