diff --git a/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx b/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
index dd19b0e43..2c1a5dba2 100644
--- a/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/syntax/nn_parser.pyx
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ cdef class Parser:
                     ids, words, tags, heads, deps, ents = annots
                     doc_sample.append(Doc(self.vocab, words=words))
                     gold_sample.append(GoldParse(doc_sample[-1], words=words, tags=tags,
-                                                 heads=heads, deps=deps, ents=ents))
+                                                 heads=heads, deps=deps, entities=ents))
             self.model.begin_training(doc_sample, gold_sample)
             if pipeline is not None:
                 self.init_multitask_objectives(get_gold_tuples, pipeline, sgd=sgd, **cfg)