diff --git a/syft/file/mock_resolver.go b/syft/file/mock_resolver.go
index 833c8517f..5f6456acd 100644
--- a/syft/file/mock_resolver.go
+++ b/syft/file/mock_resolver.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 
 var _ Resolver = (*MockResolver)(nil)
 var _ OCIMediaTypeResolver = (*MockResolver)(nil)
-var _ OCIArtifactResolver = (*MockResolver)(nil)
 
 // MockResolver implements the FileResolver interface and is intended for use *only in test code*.
 // It provides an implementation that can resolve local filesystem paths using only a provided discrete list of file
diff --git a/syft/file/resolver.go b/syft/file/resolver.go
index d2f6cc5cf..24a03e8fb 100644
--- a/syft/file/resolver.go
+++ b/syft/file/resolver.go
@@ -63,17 +63,6 @@ type OCIMediaTypeResolver interface {
 	FilesByMediaType(types ...string) ([]Location, error)
 }
 
-// OCIArtifactResolver exposes the user-supplied OCI image reference to
-// catalogers. Catalogers can type-assert a Resolver to this interface when they
-// need a naming or context hint that the layer contents alone don't carry — for
-// example, when a repacked AI model artifact has stripped name fields out of its
-// config.json and the only remaining identifier is the image reference itself.
-type OCIArtifactResolver interface {
-	// ImageReference returns the image reference the artifact was fetched with, e.g.
-	// "docker.io/ai/smollm2-vllm:360M". Returns "" when not known.
-	ImageReference() string
-}
-
 // LocationResolver provides iteration over all file locations in a source.
 type LocationResolver interface {
 	// AllLocations returns a channel of all file references from the underlying source.
diff --git a/syft/internal/fileresolver/container_image_model.go b/syft/internal/fileresolver/container_image_model.go
index 8db7abf58..a42307e32 100644
--- a/syft/internal/fileresolver/container_image_model.go
+++ b/syft/internal/fileresolver/container_image_model.go
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ import (
 
 var _ file.Resolver = (*ContainerImageModel)(nil)
 var _ file.OCIMediaTypeResolver = (*ContainerImageModel)(nil)
-var _ file.OCIArtifactResolver = (*ContainerImageModel)(nil)
 
 // LayerInfo holds information about an OCI model layer file stored on disk.
 type LayerInfo struct {
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/ai/processor.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/ai/processor.go
index f5f9ca307..efd7824f9 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/ai/processor.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/ai/processor.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/anchore/syft/internal/log"
 	"github.com/anchore/syft/syft/artifact"
 	"github.com/anchore/syft/syft/file"
+	"github.com/anchore/syft/syft/internal/fileresolver"
 	"github.com/anchore/syft/syft/pkg"
 	"github.com/anchore/syft/syft/pkg/cataloger/internal/licenses"
 )
@@ -417,7 +418,9 @@ func resolveSafeTensorsOCIIdentity(resolver file.Resolver, md *pkg.SafeTensorsMo
 }
 
 func ociImageRefBasename(resolver file.Resolver) string {
-	info, ok := resolver.(file.OCIArtifactResolver)
+	// TODO: we don't think this approach is generalizable quite yet, but we really do need this information.
+	// (Ideally we should be NOT be type asserting on the file resolver directly).
+	info, ok := resolver.(*fileresolver.ContainerImageModel)
 	if !ok {
 		return ""
 	}
diff --git a/syft/source/ocimodelsource/oci_model_source.go b/syft/source/ocimodelsource/oci_model_source.go
index afa16bc1e..8fd5e3849 100644
--- a/syft/source/ocimodelsource/oci_model_source.go
+++ b/syft/source/ocimodelsource/oci_model_source.go
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ type ociModelSource struct {
 	resolver  interface {
 		file.Resolver
 		file.OCIMediaTypeResolver
-		file.OCIArtifactResolver
 	}
 	mutex *sync.Mutex
 }