diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Form/DoctrineOrmTypeGuesser.php b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Form/DoctrineOrmTypeGuesser.php
index 1423e2e250cc..7435d1b74d27 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Form/DoctrineOrmTypeGuesser.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Form/DoctrineOrmTypeGuesser.php
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 use Symfony\Component\Form\Guess\Guess;
 use Symfony\Component\Form\Guess\TypeGuess;
 use Symfony\Component\Form\Guess\ValueGuess;
+use Doctrine\Common\Util\ClassUtils;
 
 class DoctrineOrmTypeGuesser implements FormTypeGuesserInterface
 {
@@ -161,6 +162,9 @@ public function guessPattern($class, $property)
 
     protected function getMetadata($class)
     {
+        // normalize class name
+        $class = ClassUtils::getRealClass(ltrim($class, '\\'));
+
         if (array_key_exists($class, $this->cache)) {
             return $this->cache[$class];
         }