diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index dd7ec97..f94814b 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1010,17 +1010,6 @@ anyio = ">=3.4.0,<5"
 [package.extras]
 full = ["httpx (>=0.22.0)", "itsdangerous", "jinja2", "python-multipart (>=0.0.7)", "pyyaml"]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "toolz"
-version = "0.12.1"
-description = "List processing tools and functional utilities"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.7"
-files = [
-    {file = "toolz-0.12.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:d22731364c07d72eea0a0ad45bafb2c2937ab6fd38a3507bf55eae8744aa7d85"},
-    {file = "toolz-0.12.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ecca342664893f177a13dac0e6b41cbd8ac25a358e5f215316d43e2100224f4d"},
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "typeguard"
 version = "4.3.0"
@@ -1307,4 +1296,4 @@ files = [
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.11"
-content-hash = "5ee63e971854c89787661ffa1d36a0c67d9c3daef9b589dbf330692a508bdb22"
+content-hash = "a21db5cb445b77241f5471af79bd97a9c67425974b3fcc2ba6f6213f5ce6ee4f"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b4c33d6..a472b76 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ readme = "README.md"
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "^3.11"
 sparqlwrapper = "^2.0.0"
-toolz = "^0.12.1"
 pydantic = "^2.8.2"
 fastapi = {extras = ["standard"], version = "^0.112.0"}
 typeguard = "^4.3.0"
diff --git a/rdfproxy/utils/utils.py b/rdfproxy/utils/utils.py
index 9c8554a..979efaa 100644
--- a/rdfproxy/utils/utils.py
+++ b/rdfproxy/utils/utils.py
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 """SPARQL/FastAPI utils."""
 
-from collections.abc import Iterator, Mapping
-from typing import Any, cast
+from collections.abc import Iterator
+from typing import Any
 
 from SPARQLWrapper import QueryResult
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 from pydantic.fields import FieldInfo
 from rdfproxy.utils._types import SPARQLBinding, _TModelInstance
-from toolz import valmap
 
 
 def get_bindings_from_query_result(query_result: QueryResult) -> Iterator[dict]:
@@ -18,9 +17,9 @@ def get_bindings_from_query_result(query_result: QueryResult) -> Iterator[dict]:
             f"Received object with requestedFormat '{result_format}'."
         )
 
-    query_json = cast(Mapping, query_result.convert())
+    query_json: dict = query_result.convert()
     bindings = map(
-        lambda binding: valmap(lambda v: v["value"], binding),
+        lambda binding: {k: v["value"] for k, v in binding.items()},
         query_json["results"]["bindings"],
     )