diff --git a/spacy_llm/tasks/entity_linker/task.py b/spacy_llm/tasks/entity_linker/task.py
index fd44506d..f8624a17 100644
--- a/spacy_llm/tasks/entity_linker/task.py
+++ b/spacy_llm/tasks/entity_linker/task.py
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ def _preprocess_docs_for_prompt(self, docs: Iterable[Doc]) -> Iterable[Doc]:
         ) = self._find_entity_candidates(docs)
         # Reset shard-wise candidate info. Will be set for each shard individually in _get_prompt_data(). We cannot
         # update it here, as we don't know yet how the shards will look like.
-        self._ents_cands_by_shard = [[] * len(self._ents_cands_by_doc)]
-        self._has_ent_cands_by_shard = [[] * len(self._ents_cands_by_doc)]
+        self._ents_cands_by_shard = [[]] * len(self._ents_cands_by_doc)
+        self._has_ent_cands_by_shard = [[]] * len(self._ents_cands_by_doc)
         self._n_shards = None
         return [
             EntityLinkerTask.highlight_ents_in_doc(doc, self._has_ent_cands_by_doc[i])
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ def _get_prompt_data(
         # shards. In this case we have to reset task state as well.
         if n_shards != self._n_shards:
             self._n_shards = n_shards
-            self._ents_cands_by_shard = [[] * len(self._ents_cands_by_doc)]
-            self._has_ent_cands_by_shard = [[] * len(self._ents_cands_by_doc)]
+            self._ents_cands_by_shard = [[]] * len(self._ents_cands_by_doc)
+            self._has_ent_cands_by_shard = [[]] * len(self._ents_cands_by_doc)
 
         # It's not ideal that we have to run candidate selection again here - but due to (1) us wanting to know whether
         # all entities have candidates before sharding and, more importantly, (2) some entities maybe being split up in
diff --git a/spacy_llm/tests/tasks/test_entity_linker.py b/spacy_llm/tests/tasks/test_entity_linker.py
index 45f18e7e..9c3286e2 100644
--- a/spacy_llm/tests/tasks/test_entity_linker.py
+++ b/spacy_llm/tests/tasks/test_entity_linker.py
@@ -792,3 +792,28 @@ def test_init_with_code():
     nlp.add_pipe("llm_entitylinker")
     with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="candidate_selector has to be provided"):
         nlp.initialize()
+
+
+def test_entity_linker_on_splitted_chunks(zeroshot_cfg_string, tmp_path):
+    config = Config().from_str(
+        zeroshot_cfg_string,
+        overrides={
+            "paths.el_nlp": str(tmp_path),
+            "paths.el_kb": str(tmp_path / "entity_linker" / "kb"),
+            "paths.el_desc": str(tmp_path / "desc.csv"),
+        },
+    )
+    build_el_pipeline(nlp_path=tmp_path, desc_path=tmp_path / "desc.csv")
+    nlp = assemble_from_config(config)
+    nlp_ner = spacy.load("en_core_web_md")
+    docs = [nlp_ner(text) for text in [
+        'Alice goes to Boston to see the Boston Celtics game.',
+        'Alice goes to New York to see the New York Knicks game.',
+        'I went to see Boston in concert yesterday',
+        'Thibeau Courtois plays for the Red Devils in New York',
+    ]]
+    docs = [doc for doc in nlp.pipe(docs, batch_size=50)]
+    data = [[(ent.text, ent.label_, ent.kb_id_) for ent in doc.ents] for doc in docs]
+    assert len(docs) == 4
+    assert docs[0].ents[1].text == 'Boston'
+    assert docs[0].ents[1].kb_id_ == 'Q100'