diff --git a/utils/loggers/wandb/wandb_utils.py b/utils/loggers/wandb/wandb_utils.py
index f520fbba8850..9a80dc42ca95 100644
--- a/utils/loggers/wandb/wandb_utils.py
+++ b/utils/loggers/wandb/wandb_utils.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 import sys
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from pathlib import Path
-import pkg_resources as pkg
 
+import pkg_resources as pkg
 import yaml
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
@@ -49,9 +49,11 @@ def check_wandb_dataset(data_file):
     if check_file(data_file) and data_file.endswith('.yaml'):
         with open(data_file, errors='ignore') as f:
             data_dict = yaml.safe_load(f)
-        is_wandb_artifact = (data_dict['train'].startswith(WANDB_ARTIFACT_PREFIX) or
-                             data_dict['val'].startswith(WANDB_ARTIFACT_PREFIX))
-    if is_wandb_artifact:
+        is_trainset_wandb_artifact = (isinstance(data_dict['train'], str) and
+                                      data_dict['train'].startswith(WANDB_ARTIFACT_PREFIX))
+        is_valset_wandb_artifact = (isinstance(data_dict['val'], str) and
+                                    data_dict['val'].startswith(WANDB_ARTIFACT_PREFIX))
+    if is_trainset_wandb_artifact or is_valset_wandb_artifact:
         return data_dict
     else:
         return check_dataset(data_file)