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

You can add metadata=1 and response will have metadata: {type: ...} if you do request like that:

http://graph.facebook.com/object_id?metadata=1&fields=id,name,metadata{type}

Based on commend of Vinicius Tavares.

Answer 2

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