diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/FieldInferenceBulkRequestPreprocessor.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/FieldInferenceBulkRequestPreprocessor.java
index 56c8b710cd965..adbb51f682fc3 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/FieldInferenceBulkRequestPreprocessor.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/FieldInferenceBulkRequestPreprocessor.java
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ private void runInferenceForFields(
         String fieldName = fieldNames.get(0);
         List<String> nextFieldNames = fieldNames.subList(1, fieldNames.size());
         final String fieldValue = ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName, String.class);
-        Object existingInference = ingestDocument.getFieldValue(SemanticTextInferenceFieldMapper.FIELD_NAME + "." + fieldName, Object.class, true);
+        Object existingInference = ingestDocument.getFieldValue(fieldName + "." + SemanticTextFieldMapper.SPARSE_VECTOR_SUBFIELD_NAME, Object.class, true);
         if (fieldValue == null || existingInference != null) {
             // Run inference for next field
             logger.info("Skipping inference for field [" + fieldName + "]");
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/fetch/subphase/FetchSourceContext.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/fetch/subphase/FetchSourceContext.java
index c773617569cc9..9d21cbe929fcd 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/fetch/subphase/FetchSourceContext.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/fetch/subphase/FetchSourceContext.java
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.Booleans;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.Nullable;
-import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.SemanticTextInferenceFieldMapper;
+import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.SemanticTextFieldMapper;
 import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.lookup.SourceFilter;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.ParseField;
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ public static FetchSourceContext parseFromRestRequest(RestRequest request) {
             return FetchSourceContext.of(fetchSource == null || fetchSource, sourceIncludes, sourceExcludes);
         }
 
-        return FetchSourceContext.of(true, null, new String[]{SemanticTextInferenceFieldMapper.FIELD_NAME});
+        return FetchSourceContext.of(true, null, new String[]{"*." + SemanticTextFieldMapper.SPARSE_VECTOR_SUBFIELD_NAME});
     }
 
     public static FetchSourceContext fromXContent(XContentParser parser) throws IOException {