diff --git a/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/sentence_transformers.py b/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/sentence_transformers.py
index d9f17c67186..e9ea76518ed 100644
--- a/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/sentence_transformers.py
+++ b/libs/text-splitters/langchain_text_splitters/sentence_transformers.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class SentenceTransformersTokenTextSplitter(TextSplitter):
         super().__init__(**kwargs, chunk_overlap=chunk_overlap)
 
         try:
-            from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoTokenizer  # type: ignore[import]
+            from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoTokenizer  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
         except ImportError:
             msg = (
                 "Could not import transformers python package. "
@@ -110,3 +110,4 @@ class SentenceTransformersTokenTextSplitter(TextSplitter):
             truncation="do_not_truncate",
         )
         return cast("list[int]", token_ids_with_start_and_end_token_ids)
+