diff --git a/.changeset/poor-news-joke.md b/.changeset/poor-news-joke.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6d3af8d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/poor-news-joke.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"counterfact": patch
+---
+
+work-around for URL-encoding in path names (#1083)
diff --git a/src/typescript-generator/requirement.js b/src/typescript-generator/requirement.js
index 07f78da0..4791e306 100644
--- a/src/typescript-generator/requirement.js
+++ b/src/typescript-generator/requirement.js
@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@ export class Requirement {
   }
 
   select(path, data = this.data, basePath = "") {
-    const parts = path.split("/").map(this.unescapeJsonPointer);
+    const parts = path
+      .split("/")
+      .map(this.unescapeJsonPointer)
+      // Unescape URL encoded characters (e.g. %20 -> " ")
+      // Technically we should not be unescaping, but it came up in https://github.com/pmcelhaney/counterfact/issues/1083
+      // and I can't think of a reason anyone would intentionally put a % in a key name.
+      .map(unescape);
 
     let result = this;