diff --git a/flair/datasets/sequence_labeling.py b/flair/datasets/sequence_labeling.py
index 2f7885739f..fed6c2db3e 100644
--- a/flair/datasets/sequence_labeling.py
+++ b/flair/datasets/sequence_labeling.py
@@ -2952,6 +2952,7 @@ def __init__(
             columns,
             comment_symbol="#",
             in_memory=in_memory,
+            every_sentence_is_independent=True,
             **corpusargs,
         )