diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/IndividualController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/IndividualController.java
index 6a2ecef10..3eca5970d 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/IndividualController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/IndividualController.java
@@ -548,13 +548,9 @@ public class IndividualController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
 		}
 	}
  
-	private Boolean getTemporalVisualizationFlag() {
+	private boolean getTemporalVisualizationFlag() {
 		String property = ConfigurationProperties.getProperty("visualization.temporal");
-		if ("enabled".equals(property)) {
-			return Boolean.TRUE;
-		} else {
-			return null;
-		}
+		return "enabled".equals(property);
 	}
 
     private Model getRDF(Individual entity, OntModel contextModel, Model newModel, int recurseDepth ) {