diff --git a/light9/web/ResourceDisplay.ts b/light9/web/ResourceDisplay.ts
--- a/light9/web/ResourceDisplay.ts
+++ b/light9/web/ResourceDisplay.ts
@@ -115,10 +115,15 @@ export class ResourceDisplay extends Lit
   }
 
   runUriHandler() {
+
     this.graph.runHandler(this.onUri.bind(this), `rdisplay ${this.href()}` /*needs uniqueness?*/);
   }
 
   onUri(patch?: Patch) {
+    if (patch && !patchContainsPreds(patch, [this.graph.Uri("rdfs:label")])) {
+      return;
+    }
+
     if (!this.uri) {
       this.label = "<no uri>";
       return;