diff --git a/nvtabular/inference/triton/ensemble.py b/nvtabular/inference/triton/ensemble.py
index b3d5470deb2..e11a1dff29e 100644
--- a/nvtabular/inference/triton/ensemble.py
+++ b/nvtabular/inference/triton/ensemble.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def export_tensorflow_ensemble(
     label_columns=None,
     sparse_max=None,
     version=1,
-    nvtabular_backend="nvtabular",
+    nvtabular_backend="python",
     cats=None,
     conts=None,
 ):