diff --git a/web_atoms/Cargo.toml b/web_atoms/Cargo.toml
index 88402e84..73d2dbd3 100644
--- a/web_atoms/Cargo.toml
+++ b/web_atoms/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ phf = "0.11"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 string_cache_codegen = "0.5.4"
-phf_codegen = "0.11"
+phf_codegen = "0.12"
diff --git a/web_atoms/build.rs b/web_atoms/build.rs
index 73cad2f3..52813530 100644
--- a/web_atoms/build.rs
+++ b/web_atoms/build.rs
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ fn named_entities_to_phf(to: &Path) {
 
     let mut phf_map = phf_codegen::Map::new();
     for (key, value) in entities {
-        phf_map.entry(key, &format!("{value:?}"));
+        phf_map.entry(key, format!("{value:?}"));
     }
 
     let mut file = File::create(to).unwrap();