diff --git a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/NOTES.txt b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/NOTES.txt
index 2eebba368..03ece9c59 100644
--- a/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/NOTES.txt
+++ b/charts/ingress-nginx/templates/NOTES.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ An example Ingress that makes use of the controller:
   kind: Ingress
   metadata:
     annotations:
-      kubernetes.io/ingress.class: {{ .Values.controller.ingressClass }}
+      kubernetes.io/ingress.class: {{ .Values.controller.ingressClassResource.name }}
     name: example
     namespace: foo
   spec: