diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pyx b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
index cd6fc3da6..294440494 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ cdef class NeuralDependencyParser(NeuralParser):
     TransitionSystem = ArcEager
 
     def init_multitask_objectives(self, gold_tuples, pipeline, **cfg):
-        for target in ['dep']:
+        for target in ['dep', 'ent']:
             labeller = NeuralLabeller(self.vocab, target=target)
             tok2vec = self.model[0]
             labeller.begin_training(gold_tuples, pipeline=pipeline, tok2vec=tok2vec)