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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 The get API allows to get a typed JSON document from the index based on
 its id. The following example gets a JSON document from an index called
-twitter, under a type called tweet, with id valued 0:
+twitter, under a type called _doc, with id valued 0:
 
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