diff --git a/src/pages/queryBuilder/textEditor/textEditorRow/NodeSelector.jsx b/src/pages/queryBuilder/textEditor/textEditorRow/NodeSelector.jsx
index 02b8986f..e52f46f6 100644
--- a/src/pages/queryBuilder/textEditor/textEditorRow/NodeSelector.jsx
+++ b/src/pages/queryBuilder/textEditor/textEditorRow/NodeSelector.jsx
@@ -103,14 +103,13 @@ export default function NodeSelector({
     if (includeCuries) {
       if (searchTerm.includes(':')) { // user is typing a specific curie
         newOptions.push({ name: searchTerm, ids: [searchTerm] });
-      } else {
-        if (cancel) {
-          cancel.cancel();
-        }
-        cancel = CancelToken.source();
-        const curies = await fetchCuries(searchTerm, displayAlert, cancel.token);
-        newOptions.push(...curies);
       }
+      if (cancel) {
+        cancel.cancel();
+      }
+      cancel = CancelToken.source();
+      const curies = await fetchCuries(searchTerm, displayAlert, cancel.token);
+      newOptions.push(...curies);
     }
     toggleLoading(false);
     setOptions(newOptions);
diff --git a/src/utils/fetchCuries.js b/src/utils/fetchCuries.js
index 2033e873..e4c1990f 100644
--- a/src/utils/fetchCuries.js
+++ b/src/utils/fetchCuries.js
@@ -12,28 +12,10 @@ export default async function fetchCuries(entity, displayAlert, cancel) {
   if (!Array.isArray(response)) {
     return [];
   }
-  const curieResponse = response.map((node) => node.curie);
-  if (!curieResponse.length) {
-    return [];
-  }
-
-  // Pass curies to nodeNormalizer to get category information and
-  // a better curie identifier
-  const normalizationResponse = await API.nodeNormalization.getNormalizedNodes({ curies: curieResponse }, cancel);
-
-  if (normalizationResponse.status === 'error') {
-    displayAlert('error',
-      'Failed to contact node normalizer to search curies. Please try again later.');
-    return [];
-  }
 
-  // Sometimes the nodeNormalizer returns null responses
-  // so we use a filter to remove those
-  const newOptions = Object.values(normalizationResponse).filter((c) => c).map((c) => ({
-    name: c.id.label || c.id.identifier,
-    categories: c.type,
-    ids: [c.id.identifier],
+  return response.map(({ curie, label, types }) => ({
+    name: label,
+    categories: types,
+    ids: [curie],
   }));
-
-  return newOptions;
 }