diff --git a/inference/core/workflows/execution_engine/entities/base.py b/inference/core/workflows/execution_engine/entities/base.py
index 01657ec876..bc8ee40294 100644
--- a/inference/core/workflows/execution_engine/entities/base.py
+++ b/inference/core/workflows/execution_engine/entities/base.py
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ def init(
                 "Attempted to initialise Batch object providing batch indices of size differing "
                 "from size of the data."
             )
-
-        return cls(content=content, indices=indices)
+        return cls(content, indices)
 
     def __init__(self, content: List[B], indices: Optional[List[Tuple[int, ...]]]):
         self._content = content