diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/entity_linker.py b/spacy/pipeline/entity_linker.py
index 9a13c96f8..78b05765b 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/entity_linker.py
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/entity_linker.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ def make_entity_linker(
         except:
             raise ImportError(
                 """In order to use v1 of the EntityLinker, you must use
-                    spacy-legacy >=XXX."""
+                    spacy-legacy>=3.0.12."""
             )
         # The only difference in arguments here is that use_gold_ents and threshold aren't available.
         return EntityLinker_v1(