diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/Dataset.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/Dataset.scala
index 3bd18a14f9e8f..dc69822e92908 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/Dataset.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/Dataset.scala
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class Dataset[T] private[sql](
 
   /**
    * The encoder where the expressions used to construct an object from an input row have been
-   * bound to the ordinals of the given schema.
+   * bound to the ordinals of this [[Dataset]]'s output schema.
    */
   private[sql] val boundTEncoder = resolvedTEncoder.bind(logicalPlan.output)