Same Space or Not: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence Through Cross-View Contradictions

Spatial intelligence, the capacity to represent and reason about physical space, underlies embodied perception and real-world visual understanding. Existing benchmarks probe it through spatial relations, perspective-taking, and mental modeling. What remains underexamined is whether a model can maintain a coherent scene representation across views, since pairwise comparison alone cannot reveal which view departs from the truth. We thus introduce Same Space or Not (SSoN), a benchmark of cross-view contradiction resolution comprising 1,000 questions from seven indoor scene sources and six categories of controlled 3D edits. Each question presents three views of an unchanged scene and one view of an edited variant. Models must identify the inconsistent view and explain the contradiction without a designated trusted reference or a marked target. Our construction process iteratively translates human review into generation constraints. Automated checks and exhaustive human validation screen out both trivial visual shortcuts and questions lacking sufficient evidence for a unique answer. Humans achieve 83.3% accuracy, compared with 39.7% for the strongest vision-language models (VLMs), which further drops to 34.9% when requiring valid visual explanation for the correct selection. We investigate prompting, camera information, and 3D reconstruction as routes for improvement. On a 100-question intervention set with a 24% baseline, prompting and 3D reconstruction remain below 50% answer accuracy, except when ground-truth camera information is supplied, which reaches 61% answer accuracy but only 48% True solve accuracy. On a held-out 201-question test set, Qwen2.5-VL-7B achieves 21.89% accuracy, 33.33% after answer-only fine-tuning, and 41.79% after fine-tuning with both rationale and answer supervision. These results identify cross-view contradiction resolution as a substantial weakness of current VLMs that can be partly addressed by targeted supervision. The 1,000 questions and fine-tuned checkpoints will be made public.