diff --git a/website/docs/usage/entity-recognition.jade b/website/docs/usage/entity-recognition.jade
index 3e0f538c0..9fc7dddd9 100644
--- a/website/docs/usage/entity-recognition.jade
+++ b/website/docs/usage/entity-recognition.jade
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ p
     doc.ents = [Span(doc, 0, 1, label=doc.vocab.strings['GPE'])]
     assert doc[0].ent_type_ == 'GPE'
     doc.ents = []
-    doc.ents = [(u'LondonCity', u'GPE', 0, 1)]
+    doc.ents = [(u'LondonCity', doc.vocab.strings['GPE']), 0, 1)]
 
 p
     |  The value you assign should be a sequence, the values of which