How to correlate items in Illustrator document in GUI vs scripting objects?

As a novice to Illustrator and Illustrator scripting. I notice that without good knowledge of Illustrator (the GUI and/or scripting), it's a bit tricky to correlate the type of item/object an item is as seen in the Illustrator GUI selecting the item on screen and/or seeing it in the layer's window. Because both of those don't indicate the matching Illustrator scripting item/object type, and I have to guess at what it is (or iteratively/recursively dump all items and see if I can figure out what is what from the dumped items from the script comparing to the info/properties in the UI).
Or is there some mapping feature that will indicate this that I overlooked? If not, how best to correlate?
As some examples:
* how to figure out what type of object text is that we see in the Illustrator document (assume total novice, not knowing specific text types in Illustrator)
* how to figure out whether a certain item in a layer is a page item, path item, or both? I can't tell.

I assume this is a continuation from your previous thread?
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1765707
The only thing I have ever seen (regarding a visual reference of any kind from Adobe) is this regarding the Application SDK:
http://cssdk.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sdk/2.1/docs/WebHelp/app_notes/AI_obj_mode l.htm
[^ Pretty impressive (insert sad/pathetic) coming from the market leader in graphics software huh?]
Anyway, it looks like you are at a crossroads of needs and wants and may have to fulfill each of these yourself due to their lack of current existence. ;-)

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