Attribute based classification and the data is described in:
[1] C. H. Lampert, H. Nickisch, and S. Harmeling. "Learning To Detect
Unseen Object Classes by Between-Class Attribute Transfer". In CVPR, 2009 (pdf)
The class/attribute matrix was originally created by:
[2] D. N. Osherson, J. Stern, O. Wilkie, M. Stob, and E. E. Smith. "Default probability". Cognitive Science, 15(2), 1991.
[3] C. Kemp, J. B. Tenenbaum, T. L. Griffiths, T. Yamada, and N. Ueda. "Learning systems of concepts with an infinite relational model". In AAAI, 2006.