diff --git a/fiftyone/core/odm/mixins.py b/fiftyone/core/odm/mixins.py
index a3b89465a55..eb27ec6224c 100644
--- a/fiftyone/core/odm/mixins.py
+++ b/fiftyone/core/odm/mixins.py
@@ -1131,14 +1131,14 @@ def _get_field_doc(cls, path, allow_missing=False):
     @classmethod
     def _parse_path(cls, path, reload=True, allow_missing=False):
         #
-        # @todo ideally `reload()` would not be necessary
+        # @todo ideally `reload()` would not be necessary here
         #
-        # We're currently reloading here to avoid clobbering schema updates
-        # from other concurrent usage, which can happen since `DatasetDocument`
+        # We're currently reloading to avoid clobbering schema updates from
+        # other concurrent usage, which can happen since `DatasetDocument`
         # instances can stay in-memory without `reload()` for quite awhile.
         #
         #  Ideally `save()` would gracefully update individual elements of
-        # `DatasetDocument.sample_fields`, but that is not currently supported
+        # `DatasetDocument` list fields, but that is not currently supported
         # by mongoengine...
         #
         # https://docs.mongoengine.org/guide/document-instances.html#saving-and-deleting-documents