diff --git a/rdf-processing-toolkit-cli/src/main/java/org/aksw/rdf_processing_toolkit/cli/cmd/CliUtils.java b/rdf-processing-toolkit-cli/src/main/java/org/aksw/rdf_processing_toolkit/cli/cmd/CliUtils.java
index dd27653..b716614 100644
--- a/rdf-processing-toolkit-cli/src/main/java/org/aksw/rdf_processing_toolkit/cli/cmd/CliUtils.java
+++ b/rdf-processing-toolkit-cli/src/main/java/org/aksw/rdf_processing_toolkit/cli/cmd/CliUtils.java
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ public static void configureGlobalSettings() {
         // Jena (at least up to 3.11.0) handles pseudo iris for blank nodes on the parser level
         // {@link org.apache.jena.sparql.lang.ParserBase}
         // This means, that blank nodes in SERVICE clauses would not be passed on as such
-        ARQ.setFalse(ARQ.constantBNodeLabels);
+        // FIXME check what is broken by NOT turning this off (n.b parsing <_:....> in sparql queries fails if False)
+        //ARQ.setFalse(ARQ.constantBNodeLabels);
 
         JenaExtensionHttp.register(() -> HttpClientBuilder.create().build());