diff --git a/spacy/gold/corpus.py b/spacy/gold/corpus.py
index 14774354c..8e1c1d204 100644
--- a/spacy/gold/corpus.py
+++ b/spacy/gold/corpus.py
@@ -77,6 +77,6 @@ class Corpus:
         yield from examples
 
     def dev_dataset(self, nlp, **kwargs):
-        ref_docs = self.read_docbin(nlp.vocab, self.walk_corpus(self.train_loc))
+        ref_docs = self.read_docbin(nlp.vocab, self.walk_corpus(self.dev_loc))
         examples = self.make_examples(nlp, ref_docs, **kwargs)
         yield from examples