I've noticed that it is possible (at least in ArcGIS 10.1) having within either a Personal database or a File Geodatabase, a relationship class and a feature class/table with the same name!. This is by looking at a personal database that it has been given to me. See below:

The problem I'm having is that I cannot use the arcpy.Describe() function distinctively (they have the same path), because ArcGIS picks up by default the fc always, not the rc.

I would like to solve this by using Python, not by changing names manually in Arccatalog.

Any ideas?