diff --git a/bin/wiki_entity_linking/wikipedia_processor.py b/bin/wiki_entity_linking/wikipedia_processor.py
index 315b1e916..ed3c35c43 100644
--- a/bin/wiki_entity_linking/wikipedia_processor.py
+++ b/bin/wiki_entity_linking/wikipedia_processor.py
@@ -479,11 +479,12 @@ def read_el_docs_golds(nlp, entity_file_path, dev, line_ids, kb, labels_discard=
     if not labels_discard:
         labels_discard = []
 
-    texts = []
-    entities_list = []
+    max_index = max(line_ids)
 
-    with entity_file_path.open("r", encoding="utf8") as file:
-        for i, line in enumerate(file):
+    with entity_file_path.open("r", encoding="utf8") as _file:
+        line = _file.readline()
+        i = 0
+        while line and i < max_index:
             if i in line_ids:
                 example = json.loads(line)
                 article_id = example["article_id"]
@@ -493,15 +494,12 @@ def read_el_docs_golds(nlp, entity_file_path, dev, line_ids, kb, labels_discard=
                 if dev != is_dev(article_id) or not is_valid_article(clean_text):
                     continue
 
-                texts.append(clean_text)
-                entities_list.append(entities)
-
-    docs = nlp.pipe(texts, batch_size=50)
-
-    for doc, entities in zip(docs, entities_list):
-        gold = _get_gold_parse(doc, entities, dev=dev, kb=kb, labels_discard=labels_discard)
-        if gold and len(gold.links) > 0:
-            yield doc, gold
+                doc = nlp(clean_text)
+                gold = _get_gold_parse(doc, entities, dev=dev, kb=kb, labels_discard=labels_discard)
+                if gold and len(gold.links) > 0:
+                    yield doc, gold
+            i += 1
+            line = _file.readline()
 
 
 def _get_gold_parse(doc, entities, dev, kb, labels_discard):