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Materials with triply-degenerate nodal points in their low-energy electronic spectrum produce crystalline-symmetry-enforced three-fold fermions, which conceptually lie between the two-fold Weyl and four-fold Dirac fermions. Here we show how a silver-based Dirac semimetal BaAgAs realizes three-fold fermions through our first-principles calculations combined with a low-energy effective $mathbf{k.p}$ model Hamiltonian analysis. BaAgAs is shown to harbor triply-degenerate nodal points, which lie on its $C_{3}$ rotation axis, and are protected by the $C_{6v}$($C_2otimes C_{3v}$) point-group symmetry in the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects. When the SOC is turned on, BaAgAs transitions into a nearly-ideal Dirac semimetal state with a pair of Dirac nodes lying on the $C_{3}$ rotation axis. We show that breaking inversion symmetry in the BaAgAs$_{1-x}$P$_x$ alloy yields a clean and tunable three-fold fermion semimetal. Systematic relaxation of other symmetries in BaAgAs generates a series of other topological phases. BaAgAs materials thus provide an ideal platform for exploring tunable topological properties associated with a variety of different fermionic excitations.
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