diff --git a/cpp/include/raft/neighbors/detail/knn_merge_parts.cuh b/cpp/include/raft/neighbors/detail/knn_merge_parts.cuh
index 0395e86e43..33324714fd 100644
--- a/cpp/include/raft/neighbors/detail/knn_merge_parts.cuh
+++ b/cpp/include/raft/neighbors/detail/knn_merge_parts.cuh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
+#include <raft/core/error.hpp>
 #include <raft/neighbors/detail/faiss_select/DistanceUtils.h>
 #include <raft/neighbors/detail/faiss_select/Select.cuh>
 #include <raft/util/cuda_utils.cuh>
@@ -168,5 +169,7 @@ inline void knn_merge_parts(const value_t* inK,
   else if (k <= 1024)
     knn_merge_parts_impl<value_idx, value_t, 1024, 8>(
       inK, inV, outK, outV, n_samples, n_parts, k, stream, translations);
+  else
+    THROW("Unimplemented for k=%d, knn_merge_parts works for k<=1024", k);
 }
 }  // namespace raft::neighbors::detail
diff --git a/python/raft-ann-bench/src/raft-ann-bench/generate_groundtruth/__main__.py b/python/raft-ann-bench/src/raft-ann-bench/generate_groundtruth/__main__.py
index f4d97edea5..a5ebb76635 100644
--- a/python/raft-ann-bench/src/raft-ann-bench/generate_groundtruth/__main__.py
+++ b/python/raft-ann-bench/src/raft-ann-bench/generate_groundtruth/__main__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+# Copyright (c) 2023-2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -62,17 +62,12 @@ def calc_truth(dataset, queries, k, metric="sqeuclidean"):
 
         X = cp.asarray(dataset[i : i + n_batch, :], cp.float32)
 
-        D, Ind = knn(
-            X,
-            queries,
-            k,
-            metric=metric,
-            handle=handle,
-            global_id_offset=i,  # shift neighbor index by offset i
-        )
+        D, Ind = knn(X, queries, k, metric=metric, handle=handle)
         handle.sync()
 
         D, Ind = cp.asarray(D), cp.asarray(Ind)
+        Ind += i  # shift neighbor index by offset i
+
         if distances is None:
             distances = D
             indices = Ind