diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/trainable_pipe.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/trainable_pipe.pyx
index fcc838d05..f0260c7c0 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/trainable_pipe.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/trainable_pipe.pyx
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ cdef class TrainablePipe(Pipe):
 
         teacher_pipe (Optional[TrainablePipe]): The teacher pipe to learn
             from.
-        examples (Iterable[Example]): Distillation examples. The eference
+        examples (Iterable[Example]): Distillation examples. The reference
             and predicted docs must have the same number of tokens and the
             same orthography.
         drop (float): dropout rate.
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
index d0efa83c8..b0b3a0b96 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/transition_parser.pyx
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ cdef class Parser(TrainablePipe):
 
         teacher_pipe (Optional[TrainablePipe]): The teacher pipe to learn
             from.
-        examples (Iterable[Example]): Distillation examples. The eference
+        examples (Iterable[Example]): Distillation examples. The reference
             and predicted docs must have the same number of tokens and the
             same orthography.
         drop (float): dropout rate.
@@ -315,8 +315,6 @@ cdef class Parser(TrainablePipe):
 
         RETURNS (Tuple[float, float]): The loss and the gradient.
         
-        RETURNS (Tuple[float, float]): The loss and the gradient.
-        
         DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/dependencyparser#get_teacher_student_loss
         """
         loss_func = LegacySequenceCategoricalCrossentropy(normalize=False)