diff --git a/website/docs/api/cli.mdx b/website/docs/api/cli.mdx
index ac9766237..ff4d8d8ae 100644
--- a/website/docs/api/cli.mdx
+++ b/website/docs/api/cli.mdx
@@ -1296,7 +1296,7 @@ input formats are:
 
 When a directory is provided it is traversed recursively to collect all files.
 
-When loading a .spacy file, any potential annotations stored on the `Doc` will be preserved.
+When loading a .spacy file, any potential annotations stored on the `Doc` that are not overwritten by a pipe will be preserved.
 If you want to evaluate the pipeline on raw text only, make sure that the .spacy file does not contain any annotations.
 
 ```bash