diff --git a/public/components/notebooks/components/main.tsx b/public/components/notebooks/components/main.tsx
index c8234699b1..9087289fd1 100644
--- a/public/components/notebooks/components/main.tsx
+++ b/public/components/notebooks/components/main.tsx
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ export class Main extends React.Component<MainProps, MainState> {
         });
       await this.props.http
         .post(`${NOTEBOOKS_API_PREFIX}/note/savedNotebook/addSampleNotebooks`, {
-          body: JSON.stringify({ visIds }),
+          body: JSON.stringify({ visIds, dataSourceMDSId, dataSourceMDSLabel }),
         })
         .then((res) => {
           const newData = res.body.map((notebook: any) => ({
diff --git a/server/adaptors/notebooks/saved_objects_notebooks_router.tsx b/server/adaptors/notebooks/saved_objects_notebooks_router.tsx
index 6a941fbf9a..f881147de1 100644
--- a/server/adaptors/notebooks/saved_objects_notebooks_router.tsx
+++ b/server/adaptors/notebooks/saved_objects_notebooks_router.tsx
@@ -68,13 +68,31 @@ export function renameNotebook(noteBookObj: { name: string; noteId: string }) {
 
 export async function addSampleNotes(
   opensearchNotebooksClient: SavedObjectsClientContract,
-  visIds: string[]
+  visIds: string[],
+  dataSourceMDSId?: string,
+  dataSourceMDSLabel?: string
 ) {
   const notebooks = getSampleNotebooks(visIds);
   const sampleNotebooks = [];
   try {
+    // Without a stored binding, each code block's selector falls back to the default data
+    // source rather than the one the sample data was just installed against.
     for (const item of notebooks) {
-      const createdNotebooks = await opensearchNotebooksClient.create(NOTEBOOK_SAVED_OBJECT, item);
+      const notebook = {
+        ...item,
+        savedNotebook: {
+          ...item.savedNotebook,
+          paragraphs: item.savedNotebook.paragraphs.map((paragraph) => ({
+            ...paragraph,
+            dataSourceMDSId: dataSourceMDSId ?? '',
+            dataSourceMDSLabel: dataSourceMDSLabel ?? '',
+          })),
+        },
+      };
+      const createdNotebooks = await opensearchNotebooksClient.create(
+        NOTEBOOK_SAVED_OBJECT,
+        notebook
+      );
       sampleNotebooks.push({
         dateCreated: createdNotebooks.attributes.savedNotebook.dateCreated,
         dateModified: createdNotebooks.attributes.savedNotebook.dateModified,
diff --git a/server/routes/notebooks/noteRouter.ts b/server/routes/notebooks/noteRouter.ts
index dac07d9448..c443d1877c 100644
--- a/server/routes/notebooks/noteRouter.ts
+++ b/server/routes/notebooks/noteRouter.ts
@@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ export function registerNoteRoute(router: IRouter) {
       validate: {
         body: schema.object({
           visIds: schema.arrayOf(schema.string()),
+          dataSourceMDSId: schema.maybe(schema.string()),
+          dataSourceMDSLabel: schema.maybe(schema.string()),
         }),
       },
     },
@@ -250,7 +252,9 @@ export function registerNoteRoute(router: IRouter) {
       try {
         const sampleNotebooks = await addSampleNotes(
           opensearchNotebooksClient,
-          request.body.visIds
+          request.body.visIds,
+          request.body.dataSourceMDSId,
+          request.body.dataSourceMDSLabel
         );
         return response.ok({
           body: sampleNotebooks,