diff --git a/posthog/hogql/ast.py b/posthog/hogql/ast.py
index 793d40e537d30..f0af01ea430eb 100644
--- a/posthog/hogql/ast.py
+++ b/posthog/hogql/ast.py
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ class AsteriskType(Type):
 
 @dataclass(kw_only=True)
 class FieldTraverserType(Type):
-    chain: List[str | int]
+    chain: List[str | int] | List[str]
     table_type: TableOrSelectType
 
 
diff --git a/posthog/hogql/database/models.py b/posthog/hogql/database/models.py
index 9d09a197cc0c9..d2da7868a7f9c 100644
--- a/posthog/hogql/database/models.py
+++ b/posthog/hogql/database/models.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class ExpressionField(DatabaseField):
 class FieldTraverser(FieldOrTable):
     model_config = ConfigDict(extra="forbid")
 
-    chain: List[str | int]
+    chain: List[str]
 
 
 class Table(FieldOrTable):