diff --git a/appengine/standard/ndb/entities/snippets.py b/appengine/standard/ndb/entities/snippets.py
index e42705b9da1..a8ecaf0d352 100644
--- a/appengine/standard/ndb/entities/snippets.py
+++ b/appengine/standard/ndb/entities/snippets.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ def create_entity_with_generated_id():
     # note: no id kwarg
     account = Account(username='Sandy', userid=1234, email='sandy@example.com')
     account.put()
-    # Account.key will now have a key of the form: ndb.Key(Account, 71321839)
+    # account.key will now have a key of the form: ndb.Key(Account, 71321839)
     # where the value 71321839 was generated by Datastore for us.
     return account