diff --git a/docs/docs/modules/data_connection/retrievers/self_query.ipynb b/docs/docs/modules/data_connection/retrievers/self_query.ipynb
index 2d6ecff948..a9a9d0a08a 100644
--- a/docs/docs/modules/data_connection/retrievers/self_query.ipynb
+++ b/docs/docs/modules/data_connection/retrievers/self_query.ipynb
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
     "\n",
     "To see what's going on under the hood, and to have more custom control, we can reconstruct our retriever from scratch.\n",
     "\n",
-    "First, we need to create a query-construction chain. This chain will take a |user query and generated a `StructuredQuery` object which captures the filters specified by the user. We provide some helper functions for creating a prompt and output parser. These have a number of tunable params that we'll ignore here for simplicity."
+    "First, we need to create a query-construction chain. This chain will take a user query and generated a `StructuredQuery` object which captures the filters specified by the user. We provide some helper functions for creating a prompt and output parser. These have a number of tunable params that we'll ignore here for simplicity."
    ]
   },
   {