diff --git a/sklearn/neighbors/_base.py b/sklearn/neighbors/_base.py
index 3a1fdadfb94b7..258440d20c836 100644
--- a/sklearn/neighbors/_base.py
+++ b/sklearn/neighbors/_base.py
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ def kneighbors(self, X=None, n_neighbors=None, return_distance=True):
 
         Examples
         --------
-        In the following example, we construct a NeighborsClassifier
+        In the following example, we construct a NearestNeighbors
         class from an array representing our data set and ask who's
         the closest point to [1,1,1]