diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroRequest.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroRequest.java
index 854c09ac7..7b6acc351 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroRequest.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroRequest.java
@@ -95,6 +95,14 @@ public class VitroRequest extends HttpServletRequestWrapper {
     	setAttribute("dataset", dataset);
     }
     
+    public Dataset getUnfilteredDataset() {
+    	return (Dataset) getAttribute("unfilteredDataset");
+    }
+    
+    public void setUnfilteredDataset(Dataset dataset) {
+    	setAttribute("unfilteredDataset", dataset);
+    }
+    
     //Method that retrieves write model, returns special model in case of write model
     public OntModel getWriteModel() {
     	//if special write model doesn't exist use get ont model 
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/QueryUtils.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/QueryUtils.java
index 04b03aed5..e2c1df90b 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/QueryUtils.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/QueryUtils.java
@@ -115,9 +115,16 @@ public class QueryUtils {
     }
     
     public static ResultSet getQueryResults(String queryStr, VitroRequest vreq) {
-        
-        Dataset dataset = vreq.getDataset();
-        dataset.getLock().enterCriticalSection(Lock.READ);
+        return getQueryResults(queryStr, vreq.getDataset());
+    }
+
+    public static ResultSet getLanguageNeutralQueryResults(String queryStr, VitroRequest vreq) {
+    	return getQueryResults(queryStr, vreq.getUnfilteredDataset());
+    }
+
+    /** Already have the dataset, so process the query and return the results. */
+	private static ResultSet getQueryResults(String queryStr, Dataset dataset) {
+		dataset.getLock().enterCriticalSection(Lock.READ);
         QueryExecution qexec = null;
         ResultSet results = null;
         try {
@@ -133,6 +140,6 @@ public class QueryUtils {
         } 
         
         return results;
-    }
+	}
 
 }
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filters/RequestModelsPrep.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filters/RequestModelsPrep.java
index 4d53fa058..983742ab3 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filters/RequestModelsPrep.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filters/RequestModelsPrep.java
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ public class RequestModelsPrep implements Filter {
 		VitroRequest vreq = new VitroRequest(req);
 
 		vreq.setUnfilteredRDFService(rawRdfService);
+		vreq.setUnfilteredDataset(new RDFServiceDataset(rawRdfService));
 
 		List<String> langs = getPreferredLanguages(req);
 		RDFService rdfService = addLanguageAwareness(langs, rawRdfService);