diff --git a/google-cloud-datastore/README.md b/google-cloud-datastore/README.md
index 80f5d2475d92..05067b8b627a 100644
--- a/google-cloud-datastore/README.md
+++ b/google-cloud-datastore/README.md
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ import com.google.cloud.datastore.KeyFactory;
 Then add the following code to put an entity in Datastore.
 
 ```java
-KeyFactory keyFactory = datastore.newKeyFactory().kind("Person");
+KeyFactory keyFactory = datastore.newKeyFactory().setKind("Person");
 Key key = keyFactory.newKey("john.doe@gmail.com");
 Entity entity = Entity.newBuilder(key)
     .set("name", "John Doe")