diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individuallist/IndividualJsonWrapper.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individuallist/IndividualJsonWrapper.java
index b96272883..1fda3985a 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individuallist/IndividualJsonWrapper.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individuallist/IndividualJsonWrapper.java
@@ -8,11 +8,9 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.DataProperty;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroRequest;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.UrlBuilder;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.json.JsonServlet;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.ObjectPropertyStatementDao;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.WebappDaoFactory;
 
@@ -27,11 +25,6 @@ public class IndividualJsonWrapper {
 		// need an unfiltered dao to get firstnames and lastnames
 		WebappDaoFactory fullWdf = vreq.getUnfilteredWebappDaoFactory();
 
-		// TODO -- get this VIVO property out of Vitro code!
-		DataProperty preferredTitleDp = (new DataProperty());
-		preferredTitleDp
-				.setURI("http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#preferredTitle");
-
 		JSONObject jo = new JSONObject();
 		jo.put("URI", ind.getURI());
 		jo.put("label", ind.getRdfsLabel());
@@ -40,8 +33,6 @@ public class IndividualJsonWrapper {
 		jo.put("imageUrl", ind.getImageUrl());
 		jo.put("profileUrl", UrlBuilder.getIndividualProfileUrl(ind, vreq));
 		jo.put("mostSpecificTypes", getMostSpecificTypes(ind, fullWdf));
-		jo.put("preferredTitle", JsonServlet.getDataPropertyValue(ind,
-				preferredTitleDp, fullWdf));
 		return jo;
 	}
 
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/services/shortview/FakeApplicationOntologyService.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/services/shortview/FakeApplicationOntologyService.java
index c3a0b6be4..794837d24 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/services/shortview/FakeApplicationOntologyService.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/services/shortview/FakeApplicationOntologyService.java
@@ -439,9 +439,13 @@ public class FakeApplicationOntologyService {
 	 * "display model". The query finds a preferred title for the individual.
 	 */
 	private static class FakeVivoPeopleDataGetter extends SparqlQueryDataGetter {
-		private static final String QUERY_STRING = "SELECT ?uri ?pt WHERE {\n"
-				+ "   ?uri <http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#preferredTitle> ?pt\n"
-				+ "} LIMIT 1";
+		private static String QUERY_STRING = ""
+				+ "PREFIX obo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/> \n"
+				+ "PREFIX vcard: <http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#>  \n"
+				+ "SELECT ?uri ?pt  \n" + "WHERE {  \n"
+				+ "    ?uri obo:ARG_2000028 ?vIndividual .  \n"
+				+ "    ?vIndividual vcard:hasTitle ?vTitle . \n"
+				+ "    ?vTitle vcard:title ?pt . \n" + "} LIMIT 1";
 
 		private static final String FAKE_VIVO_PEOPLE_DATA_GETTER_URI = "http://FakeVivoPeopleDataGetter";