get item type of an Eloquent collection in Laravel

I am trying to find the best way to retrieve the Eloquent Model type of items in a collection.

Of course I can get the first item and ask for its type, but it's likely that I hit an empty collection and there's no other way to get the type then. This question is similar to this one here C# - Get the item type for a generic list but I couldn't find any addressing this for laravel or php.

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