diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/components/UserListPicker/UserListPicker.test.tsx b/plugins/catalog-react/src/components/UserListPicker/UserListPicker.test.tsx
index f0b82b550e..63228717a5 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/components/UserListPicker/UserListPicker.test.tsx
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/components/UserListPicker/UserListPicker.test.tsx
@@ -523,9 +523,7 @@ describe('<UserListPicker />', () => {
           return mockQueryEntitiesImplementation(request);
         });
 
-        render(
-          <Picker initialFilter="owned" />,
-        ); /*  picker({ loading: true })*/
+        render(<Picker initialFilter="owned" />);
 
         await waitFor(() =>
           expect(mockCatalogApi.queryEntities).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3),
@@ -566,9 +564,7 @@ describe('<UserListPicker />', () => {
           return mockQueryEntitiesImplementation(request);
         });
 
-        render(
-          <Picker initialFilter="starred" />,
-        ); /*  picker({ loading: true })*/
+        render(<Picker initialFilter="starred" />);
 
         await waitFor(() =>
           expect(mockCatalogApi.queryEntities).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3),
@@ -587,7 +583,10 @@ describe('<UserListPicker />', () => {
 
         await waitFor(() =>
           expect(updateFilters).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith({
-            user: EntityUserListFilter.starred(expect.any(Array)),
+            user: EntityUserListFilter.starred([
+              'component:default/e-1',
+              'component:default/e-2',
+            ]),
           }),
         );
       });
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/filters.ts b/plugins/catalog-react/src/filters.ts
index b94b538802..74ab771999 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/filters.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/filters.ts
@@ -241,11 +241,11 @@ export class EntityUserListFilter implements EntityFilter {
     // This is supposed to return always true for paginated
     // owned entities, since the filters are applied server side.
     if (this.value === 'owned') {
+      const relations = getEntityRelations(entity, RELATION_OWNED_BY);
+
       return (
         this.refs?.some(v =>
-          getEntityRelations(entity, RELATION_OWNED_BY).some(
-            o => stringifyEntityRef(o) === v,
-          ),
+          relations.some(o => stringifyEntityRef(o) === v),
         ) ?? false
       );
     }
@@ -309,9 +309,6 @@ export class EntityOrphanFilter implements EntityFilter {
 export class EntityErrorFilter implements EntityFilter {
   constructor(readonly value: boolean) {}
 
-  // TODO(vinzscam): is it possible to implement
-  // getCatalogFilters? ask mammals
-
   filterEntity(entity: Entity): boolean {
     const error =
       ((entity as AlphaEntity)?.status?.items?.length as number) > 0;