diff --git a/docs/reference/setup/install/docker.asciidoc b/docs/reference/setup/install/docker.asciidoc
index 6860aa563bf56..58feb55f32e2f 100644
--- a/docs/reference/setup/install/docker.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/setup/install/docker.asciidoc
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ need to <<docker-set-heap-size,manually set the JVM size>>.
 
 {ml-cap} features such as <<semantic-search-elser, semantic search with ELSER>>
 require a larger container with more than 1GB of memory.
-If you intend to use the machine learning capabilities, then start the container with this command:
+If you intend to use the {ml} capabilities, then start the container with this command:
 +
 [source,sh,subs="attributes"]
 ----