[Developers] Metadata about types

[John Giannandrea]

Shawn Simister wrote:
> This will give you the first 2 requirements. Not too sure about public
> vs. private. As far as I can tell thats not exposed in the API.

It is often a little hard to figure out what properties are in use for a
specific object.  One practical tool that shows you whats going on
under the hood is our explore view.  For example:

     http://www.freebase.com/view/explore/location/continent

this shows you the programmer property ids being used
at the lowest layer.  If you click on Africa for example you can
see how languages are modeled and all the other assertions
for that instance.

(you can get to the explore view from any topic page by typing F8
and clicking on 'Explore'.

Hope that is helpful in understanding the data better.

-jg