diff --git a/.changeset/polite-apples-relax.md b/.changeset/polite-apples-relax.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6d10aaabf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/polite-apples-relax.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend': patch
+---
+
+Fixed display of the location in the log message that is printed when entity envelope validation fails.
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/ProcessorOutputCollector.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/ProcessorOutputCollector.ts
index ff12f2f3db..cc3e1401bd 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/ProcessorOutputCollector.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/ProcessorOutputCollector.ts
@@ -72,17 +72,17 @@ export class ProcessorOutputCollector {
 
     if (i.type === 'entity') {
       let entity: Entity;
+      const location = stringifyLocationRef(i.location);
+
       try {
         entity = validateEntityEnvelope(i.entity);
       } catch (e) {
         assertError(e);
-        this.logger.debug(`Envelope validation failed at ${i.location}, ${e}`);
+        this.logger.debug(`Envelope validation failed at ${location}, ${e}`);
         this.errors.push(e);
         return;
       }
 
-      const location = stringifyLocationRef(i.location);
-
       // Note that at this point, we have only validated the envelope part of
       // the entity data. Annotations are not part of that, so we have to be
       // defensive. If the annotations were malformed (e.g. were not a valid