diff --git a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
index 22a32e09025c..eac5267efe94 100755
--- a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/run_ner.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ class ModelArguments:
         metadata={"help": "Path to pretrained model or model identifier from huggingface.co/models"}
     )
     distill_teacher: Optional[str] = field(
-        default=None, metadata={"help": "Teacher model which needs to be a trained QA model"}
+        default=None, metadata={"help": "Teacher model which needs to be a trained NER model"}
     )
     config_name: Optional[str] = field(
         default=None, metadata={"help": "Pretrained config name or path if not the same as model_name"}
diff --git a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/sparseml_utils.py b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/sparseml_utils.py
index 200c68d680a2..0fafb0213584 100644
--- a/examples/pytorch/token-classification/sparseml_utils.py
+++ b/examples/pytorch/token-classification/sparseml_utils.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 class TokenClassificationModuleExporter(ModuleExporter):
     """
-    Module exporter class for Question Answering
+    Module exporter class for Token Classification
     """
 
     @classmethod