diff --git a/core/modules/entity_reference/lib/Drupal/entity_reference/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/EntityReferenceEntityFormatter.php b/core/modules/entity_reference/lib/Drupal/entity_reference/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/EntityReferenceEntityFormatter.php
index d115163..80bd314 100644
--- a/core/modules/entity_reference/lib/Drupal/entity_reference/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/EntityReferenceEntityFormatter.php
+++ b/core/modules/entity_reference/lib/Drupal/entity_reference/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/EntityReferenceEntityFormatter.php
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ public function viewElements(FieldItemListInterface $items) {
         // entity's url. Since we don't know what the markup of the entity will
         // be, we shouldn't rely on the markup for structured data such as RDFa.
         if (!empty($item->_attributes)) {
-          $item->_attributes += array('resource' => $entity->url());
+          $item->_attributes += array('resource' => $item->entity->url());
         }
       }
       else {
diff --git a/core/modules/rdf/lib/Drupal/rdf/Tests/Field/EntityReferenceRdfaTest.php b/core/modules/rdf/lib/Drupal/rdf/Tests/Field/EntityReferenceRdfaTest.php
index 24aac79..58c6e86 100644
--- a/core/modules/rdf/lib/Drupal/rdf/Tests/Field/EntityReferenceRdfaTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/rdf/lib/Drupal/rdf/Tests/Field/EntityReferenceRdfaTest.php
@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ class EntityReferenceRdfaTest extends FieldRdfaTestBase {
   protected $fieldType = 'entity_reference';
 
   /**
+   * The entity type used in this test.
+   *
+   * @var string
+   */
+  protected $entityType = 'entity_test';
+
+  /**
+   * The bundle used in this test.
+   *
+   * @var string
+   */
+  protected $bundle = 'entity_test';
+
+  /**
    * The term for testing.
    *
    * @var \Drupal\taxonomy\Entity\Term
@@ -45,34 +59,7 @@ public function setUp() {
 
     $this->installSchema('entity_test', array('entity_test_rev', 'entity_test_rev_revision'));
 
-    $field = entity_create('field_config', array(
-      'name' => $this->fieldName,
-      'entity_type' => 'entity_test',
-      'type' => $this->fieldType
-    ));
-    $field->save();
-    entity_create('field_instance_config', array(
-      'entity_type' => 'entity_test',
-      'field_name' => $this->fieldName,
-      'bundle' => 'entity_test',
-      'settings' => array(
-        'handler' => 'default',
-        'handler_settings' => array(
-          'target_bundles' => array('entity_test' => 'entity_test'),
-        ),
-      ),
-    ))->save();
-
-    $this->entity = entity_create('entity_test', array(
-      'name' => $this->randomName(),
-      'langcode' => Language::LANGCODE_NOT_SPECIFIED,
-    ));
-
-    $this->target_entity = entity_create('entity_test', array(
-      'name' => $this->randomName(),
-      'langcode' => Language::LANGCODE_NOT_SPECIFIED,
-    ));
-    $this->target_entity->save();
+    entity_reference_create_instance($this->entityType, $this->bundle, $this->fieldName, 'Field test', $this->entityType);
 
     // Add the mapping.
     $mapping = rdf_get_mapping('entity_test', 'entity_test');
@@ -80,23 +67,26 @@ public function setUp() {
       'properties' => array('schema:knows'),
     ))->save();
 
-    // Set up test values.
-    $this->entity->{$this->fieldName}->target_id = $this->target_entity->id();
-    $this->entity->{$this->fieldName}->target_type = 'entity_test';
+    // Create the entity to be referenced.
+    $this->target_entity = entity_create($this->entityType, array('name' => $this->randomName()));
+    $this->target_entity->save();
 
+    // Create the entity that will have the entity reference field.
+    $this->entity = entity_create($this->entityType, array('name' => $this->randomName()));
     $this->entity->save();
-    $this->uri = $this->getAbsoluteUri($this->entity);
+    $this->entity->{$this->fieldName}->entity = $this->target_entity;
+    $this->entity->{$this->fieldName}->access = TRUE;
   }
 
   /**
    * Tests all the entity reference formatters.
    */
   public function testAllFormatters() {
-    $entity_uri = $this->getAbsoluteUri($this->target_entity);
+    $entity_uri = $this->uri . $this->getRelativeUri($this->target_entity);
     // Tests the label formatter.
     $this->assertFormatterRdfa(array('type' => 'entity_reference_label'), 'http://schema.org/knows', array('value' => $entity_uri, 'type' => 'uri'));
     // Tests the entity formatter.
-    $this->assertFormatterRdfa(array('type'=>'entity_reference_entity_view'), 'http://schema.org/knows', array('value' => $entity_uri, 'type' => 'uri'));
+    $this->assertFormatterRdfa(array('type' => 'entity_reference_entity_view'), 'http://schema.org/knows', array('value' => $entity_uri, 'type' => 'uri'));
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/core/modules/rdf/lib/Drupal/rdf/Tests/Field/FieldRdfaTestBase.php b/core/modules/rdf/lib/Drupal/rdf/Tests/Field/FieldRdfaTestBase.php
index 14bcfa1..f34a05b 100644
--- a/core/modules/rdf/lib/Drupal/rdf/Tests/Field/FieldRdfaTestBase.php
+++ b/core/modules/rdf/lib/Drupal/rdf/Tests/Field/FieldRdfaTestBase.php
@@ -115,5 +115,8 @@ protected function createTestField() {
   protected function getAbsoluteUri($entity) {
     return $entity->url('canonical', array('absolute' => TRUE));
   }
+  protected function getRelativeUri($entity) {
+    return $entity->url('canonical', array('absolute' => FALSE));
+  }
 
 }