Determining type of object with id in FB Graph API

Question

Is there a way to determine what kind of object is represented by the given ID https://graph.facebook.com/ID. When I\'m requesting this in Graph API Explorer tool,

Answer 1

This is possible if you using something Facebook call "introspection" by adding metadata argument to your request:

GET http://graph.facebook.com/object_id?metadata=1

The result will contain type field