diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualResponseBuilder.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualResponseBuilder.java
index 4a539f708..e3ebb1d5e 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualResponseBuilder.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualResponseBuilder.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.RDFNode;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.json.JSONException;
@@ -290,8 +291,10 @@ class IndividualResponseBuilder {
             ResultSet results = QueryUtils.getLanguageNeutralQueryResults(queryStr, vreq);
             if (results.hasNext()) {
                 QuerySolution soln = results.nextSolution();
-                String countStr = soln.get("labelCount").toString();
-                theCount = Integer.parseInt(countStr);
+                RDFNode labelCount = soln.get("labelCount");
+                if (labelCount != null && labelCount.isLiteral()) {
+                    theCount = labelCount.asLiteral().getInt();
+                }
             }
         } catch (Exception e) {
             log.error(e, e);
@@ -309,8 +312,10 @@ class IndividualResponseBuilder {
                ResultSet results = QueryUtils.getLanguageNeutralQueryResults(queryStr, vreq);
                if (results.hasNext()) {
                    QuerySolution soln = results.nextSolution();
-                   String countStr = soln.get("languageCount").toString();
-                   theCount = Integer.parseInt(countStr);
+                   RDFNode languageCount = soln.get("languageCount");
+                   if (languageCount != null && languageCount.isLiteral()) {
+                       theCount = languageCount.asLiteral().getInt();
+                   }
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                log.error(e, e);